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.
ADAM MCKAYThe way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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There 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.
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The 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.
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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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