Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
ADAM MCKAYEvery time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
ADAM MCKAYI 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 MCKAYI think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
ADAM MCKAYIt’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.
ADAM MCKAYAnimals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
ADAM MCKAYI 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.
ADAM MCKAYIt so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
ADAM MCKAYCreative freedom is a huge carrot.
ADAM MCKAYThe 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.
ADAM MCKAYNormally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
ADAM MCKAYThere’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
ADAM MCKAYWe’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
ADAM MCKAYNothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
ADAM MCKAYOld man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
ADAM MCKAYAny time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
ADAM MCKAYFor 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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