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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.

Adam McKay

Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
ADAM MCKAY

Celebrity Dangerous Famous Folk People Regular
Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
ADAM MCKAY

Actor Area Counting Everyone Line Rolling Sort Talk
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Action Critic Following Movie Outdated Savage Special Weekend
It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
ADAM MCKAY

Crazy Funeral Huge Laugh People
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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Easiest Ice Serious Situation Break Time Way
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Director Do Really Tone
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Black Bubbled Cosby Country Feel Little Pocket Racism Show
I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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Every Giving Little Movie Part
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

Allowed Banking Essential Finance Modern Society
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Corporation Definition Exclude Mention Webster
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
ADAM MCKAY

Able Care Fail Failing Having Improv
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Dial Doing Finally First Funny Movie Point Screening Three Two Working
Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Confidently Funnier Nothing Wrong Thing
Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
ADAM MCKAY

Animal Behaving Funny Rarely Talking
The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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Director Hollywood Liberal Make Musician People Skews
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

Couple First Laughing Movie Screen Time Trying Work

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