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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

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
ADAM MCKAY

Audience Far Hate Listen Something
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Hour Idea Insane News Pretty Twenty Four
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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Artistic Heart History Lying Message Moment Played Thinking Well
I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
ADAM MCKAY

Assault Completely Country Doubt Dumb Movie Silly Sophisticated Speak Subversive
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.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Action Critic Following Movie Outdated Savage Special Weekend
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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Country Culture Disengaged Government People Process Thinking
Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Dave Favorite People Favorite Performance
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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Black Bubbled Cosby Country Feel Little Pocket Racism Show
Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
ADAM MCKAY

Corporation Create Definition Fascism Merging State
I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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Gotten Guy Hug Laugh Laughing Movie
White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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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Break Country Ideology Mes Pointing Really Stuff
Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
ADAM MCKAY

Animal Behaving Funny Rarely Talking
Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
ADAM MCKAY

Almost Die Hard Kill Movie Put Something
I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
ADAM MCKAY

Cultural Elite Myself
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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