Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
ADAM MCKAYYou have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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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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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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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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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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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.’
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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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