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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.

Adam McKay

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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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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The 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.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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