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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

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.
ADAM MCKAY

Better Comedy Hustle Kung Fu Hustle Money Movie Thinking Year Yera
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

Anything Governing Grossest Immediately m Part Political Population Reek Worst
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Art Culture Job Jump Little Push Realize Thinking
I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
ADAM MCKAY

Government Helping Loan Show Successfully Themselves University World
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.
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Corporation Definition Exclude Mention Webster
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Able Action Amazing Fan Film Giant Kind Love Movie
There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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Improv Less People Something Think Thinking Truth Way
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

Audience Country Economics Hollywood Issue Social
Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
ADAM MCKAY

Exhausted Hit Normally Start Three Two Yawning
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

Actor Area Counting Everyone Line Rolling Sort Talk
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

Bigs Hollywood Imagine
Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
ADAM MCKAY

Billion Fact Industry Drive Obamacare Private Republican
I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
ADAM MCKAY

Country Culture Disengaged Government People Process Thinking
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

Funding Invasion Land Really Stopping Way
Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
ADAM MCKAY

Dave Favorite People Favorite Performance
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
ADAM MCKAY

Aspect Directing Mind People Place
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

Care People Sense Talking
I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
ADAM MCKAY

Grew Job Mom School Single Waitress
Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
ADAM MCKAY

Audience Comedy Expectation Most Perception
Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
ADAM MCKAY

Almost Die Hard Kill Movie Put Something
Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
ADAM MCKAY

Animal Behaving Funny Rarely Talking
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

Effort Movie One Sure Thing Want Waste
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Black Bubbled Cosby Country Feel Little Pocket Racism Show
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Assault Completely Country Doubt Dumb Movie Silly Sophisticated Speak Subversive
I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
ADAM MCKAY

Belief Company Employee People Run Running Treat
I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
ADAM MCKAY

Cultural Elite Myself
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Action Critic Following Movie Outdated Savage Special Weekend

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