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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.

Adam McKay

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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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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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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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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