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.
ADAM MCKAYI 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.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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