Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
ADAM MCKAYIn 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.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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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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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.
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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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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 have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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