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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

Adam McKay

I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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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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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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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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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about 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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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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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 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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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