There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
ADAM MCKAYYou have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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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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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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