So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
ADAM MCKAYI 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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.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 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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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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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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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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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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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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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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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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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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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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