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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

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Aspect Directing Mind People Place
There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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Always Control Pro Thing
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
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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Thinking Tv Shows Years
So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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All Having Powerful Vote
“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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Government Military Scary
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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Allowed Banking Essential Finance Modern Society
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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Carrots Creative Creative Freedom
Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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Blazing Ever Funniest Made Movie Saddles
Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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Better Do Ferrel Just Time Voice Wrote
Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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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