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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

Adam McKay

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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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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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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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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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.
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