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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

Adam McKay

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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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