There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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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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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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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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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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