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.
ADAM MCKAYThe only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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 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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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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