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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.

Adam McKay

Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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Grew Job Mom School Single Waitress
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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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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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 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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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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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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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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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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