As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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Benito 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.’
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I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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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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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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