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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.

Adam McKay

Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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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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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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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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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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