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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.

Adam McKay

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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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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.
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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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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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