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.
ADAM MCKAYIt’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.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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“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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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