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

Adam McKay

When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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