It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
ADAM MCKAYEvery time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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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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