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

Adam McKay

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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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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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Confidently Funnier Nothing Wrong Thing
“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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The 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.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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