Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
ADAM MCKAYEvery time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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.’
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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.
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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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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.
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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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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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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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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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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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