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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Adam McKay

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Director Do Really Tone
It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Crazy Funeral Huge Laugh People
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
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
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Hour Idea Insane News Pretty Twenty Four
All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
ADAM MCKAY

All Having Powerful Vote
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
It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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According Country People Poll Pretty Progressive Support
Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
ADAM MCKAY

Advice Call People Time Want
There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
ADAM MCKAY

Aggressive Movement Political Ridiculous Thinking
I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
ADAM MCKAY

Gotten Guy Hug Laugh Laughing Movie
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
We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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Darker Explore Mirror People Punch Shelve
Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
ADAM MCKAY

Began Fact Hardly Plan Republican Socialism
It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
ADAM MCKAY

Break Country Ideology Mes Pointing Really Stuff
Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Funny Man never Old Phone

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