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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

Adam McKay

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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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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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 always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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.
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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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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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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.
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