All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
ADAM MCKAYAll we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
ADAM MCKAYThere 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.
ADAM MCKAYI 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.
ADAM MCKAYThe 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.
ADAM MCKAYCreative freedom is a huge carrot.
ADAM MCKAYMy 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.
ADAM MCKAYIn general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
ADAM MCKAYIt’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
ADAM MCKAYAs for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
ADAM MCKAYIt’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
ADAM MCKAYIf you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
ADAM MCKAYCan anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
ADAM MCKAYSo 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 MCKAYObamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
ADAM MCKAYI gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
ADAM MCKAYCelebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
ADAM MCKAY