So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
ADAM MCKAYI’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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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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“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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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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 think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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 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.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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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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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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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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