I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
ADAM MCKAYAll you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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