Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
ADAM MCKAYI 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.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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I 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.
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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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I 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.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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