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.
ADAM MCKAYI’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
More Adam McKay Quotes
-
-
Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
ADAM MCKAY -
White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
ADAM MCKAY -
The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
ADAM MCKAY -
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
ADAM MCKAY -
The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
ADAM MCKAY -
As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
ADAM MCKAY -
Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
ADAM MCKAY -
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 MCKAY -
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.
ADAM MCKAY -
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.
ADAM MCKAY -
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.
ADAM MCKAY -
This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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.
ADAM MCKAY -
Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
ADAM MCKAY -
Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
ADAM MCKAY