Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
ADAM MCKAYThe easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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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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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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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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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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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’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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