All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
ADAM MCKAYAll we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
ADAM MCKAYThe idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.
ADAM MCKAYFor a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
ADAM MCKAYBenito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
ADAM MCKAYI 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.
ADAM MCKAYObamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
ADAM MCKAYI could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
ADAM MCKAYEvery time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
ADAM MCKAYThere are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
ADAM MCKAYThere’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
ADAM MCKAYWe’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
ADAM MCKAYCan anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
ADAM MCKAYI 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.
ADAM MCKAYI’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
ADAM MCKAYIt 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.
ADAM MCKAYI always give myself a little part in every movie.
ADAM MCKAY