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ADAM MCKAYCan anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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 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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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.
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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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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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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