It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
ADAM MCKAYAs far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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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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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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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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