Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
ADAM MCKAYThere’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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