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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Adam McKay

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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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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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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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