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.
ADAM MCKAYIt’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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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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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 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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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