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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

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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Effort Movie One Sure Thing Want Waste
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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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 easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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 could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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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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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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