The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
ADAM MCKAYThe easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
ADAM MCKAYI’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
ADAM MCKAYNormally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
ADAM MCKAYThere are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
ADAM MCKAYAll we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
ADAM MCKAYCan anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
ADAM MCKAYSometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
ADAM MCKAYMy 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.
ADAM MCKAYIf you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
ADAM MCKAYAny time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
ADAM MCKAYBlanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
ADAM MCKAYDavid O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
ADAM MCKAYThere are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
ADAM MCKAYThe 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.
ADAM MCKAYIn general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
ADAM MCKAYI grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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