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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

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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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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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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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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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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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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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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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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