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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.

Adam McKay

There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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I’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.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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