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Adam McKay

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
There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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Billion Fact Industry Drive Obamacare Private Republican
In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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Black Bubbled Cosby Country Feel Little Pocket Racism Show
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.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Action Critic Following Movie Outdated Savage Special Weekend
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Anything Backward Color Judging Skin Someone Thinking
I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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