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Adam McKay

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Else Fail Failing Pro
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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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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Effort Movie One Sure Thing Want Waste
I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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 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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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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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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Care People Sense Talking
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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Corporation Create Definition Fascism Merging State
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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Anything Day Information Much Really Tell
There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Carrots Creative Creative Freedom
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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Allowed Banking Essential Finance Modern Society
I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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Corporation Definition Exclude Mention Webster
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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