Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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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.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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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’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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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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