Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
ADAM MCKAYNothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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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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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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 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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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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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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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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