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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.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

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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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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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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 grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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 would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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.
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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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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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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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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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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