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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.

Adam McKay

In 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.
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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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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.
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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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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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 a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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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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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 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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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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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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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