If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
ADAM MCKAYAny time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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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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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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