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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.

Adam McKay

Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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It’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.
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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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