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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

Adam McKay

There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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Improv Less People Something Think Thinking Truth Way
I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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Every Giving Little Movie Part
I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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Grew Job Mom School Single Waitress
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.
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Assault Completely Country Doubt Dumb Movie Silly Sophisticated Speak Subversive
My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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Better Broke College Degree Grant Herself Job Mom Pell School State
Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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Audience Comedy Expectation Most Perception
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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Corporation Definition Exclude Mention Webster
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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Audience Far Hate Listen Something
There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Federal Joke More Nothing People Reserve
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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Dave Favorite People Favorite Performance
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Director Do Really Tone
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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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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Director Hollywood Liberal Make Musician People Skews
We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Anything Day Information Much Really Tell
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Anything Backward Color Judging Skin Someone Thinking

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