black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

Adam McKay

It 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 MCKAY

According Country People Poll Pretty Progressive Support
When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
ADAM MCKAY

Couple First Laughing Movie Screen Time Trying Work
I 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 MCKAY

Art Culture Job Jump Little Push Realize Thinking
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.’
ADAM MCKAY

Corporation Create Definition Fascism Merging State
I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
ADAM MCKAY

Belief Company Employee People Run Running Treat
I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
ADAM MCKAY

Article Click First Interview Movie Part People Walt Whitman
It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
ADAM MCKAY

Channel Confusion Contend Country Different Junk Source Specific
It’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 MCKAY

Aiming Break Comedy Country Damage Dangerous Ideology People Possession
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
ADAM MCKAY

Anything Backward Color Judging Skin Someone Thinking
I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
ADAM MCKAY

Grew Job Mom School Single Waitress
Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
ADAM MCKAY

Animal Behaving Funny Rarely Talking
I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
ADAM MCKAY

Announcing Comedy Dangerous Intention Room Thinking
Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
ADAM MCKAY

Better Do Ferrel Just Time Voice Wrote
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Aggressive Movement Political Ridiculous Thinking
Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
ADAM MCKAY

Exhausted Hit Normally Start Three Two Yawning
Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
ADAM MCKAY

Celebrity Dangerous Famous Folk People Regular
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
ADAM MCKAY

Directors Favorite Filmmaker People Probably
If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
ADAM MCKAY

Else Fail Failing Pro
It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
ADAM MCKAY

Crazy Funeral Huge Laugh People
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Allowed Banking Essential Finance Modern Society
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Anything Governing Grossest Immediately m Part Political Population Reek Worst
Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
ADAM MCKAY

Advice Call People Time Want
I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
ADAM MCKAY

Government Helping Loan Show Successfully Themselves University World
We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
ADAM MCKAY

Backbone Central Circle Everything Idea
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
ADAM MCKAY

Audience Far Hate Listen Something
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Assault Completely Country Doubt Dumb Movie Silly Sophisticated Speak Subversive
Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
ADAM MCKAY

Began Fact Hardly Plan Republican Socialism

Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Adam McKay Quotes