For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
ADAM MCKAYI 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.
More Adam McKay Quotes
-
-
There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
ADAM MCKAY -
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.
ADAM MCKAY -
As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
ADAM MCKAY -
There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
ADAM MCKAY -
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.
ADAM MCKAY -
Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
ADAM MCKAY -
I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
ADAM MCKAY -
My 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 MCKAY -
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.
ADAM MCKAY -
We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
ADAM MCKAY -
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
ADAM MCKAY -
Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
ADAM MCKAY -
All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
ADAM MCKAY -
In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
ADAM MCKAY -
Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
ADAM MCKAY