There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
ADAM MCKAYThere’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
ADAM MCKAYI 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.
ADAM MCKAYHardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
ADAM MCKAYAll you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
ADAM MCKAYI think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
ADAM MCKAYNormally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
ADAM MCKAYSo 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.
ADAM MCKAYI 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.
ADAM MCKAYEvery time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
ADAM MCKAYI’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.
ADAM MCKAYOld man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
ADAM MCKAYThe 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.
ADAM MCKAYThe one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
ADAM MCKAYThere 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.
ADAM MCKAYAs for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
ADAM MCKAYSometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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