All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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’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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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 think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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