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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.

Adam McKay

I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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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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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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