If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
ADAM MCKAYThere’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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