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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.

Adam McKay

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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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