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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.

Adam McKay

I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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Belief Company Employee People Run Running Treat
We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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Backbone Central Circle Everything Idea
I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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Art Culture Job Jump Little Push Realize Thinking
The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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Director Hollywood Liberal Make Musician People Skews
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Action Critic Following Movie Outdated Savage Special Weekend
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Director Do Really Tone
This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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Corporation Definition Exclude Mention Webster
White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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Effort Movie One Sure Thing Want Waste
There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Federal Joke More Nothing People Reserve
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Around Comedy Funniest Guy People Two World
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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Audience Far Hate Listen Something
I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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Article Click First Interview Movie Part People Walt Whitman
As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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