I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
ADAM MCKAYCreative freedom is a huge carrot.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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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 always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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