Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
ADAM MCKAYThe 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.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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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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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.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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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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