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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

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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Assault Completely Country Doubt Dumb Movie Silly Sophisticated Speak Subversive
I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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Every Giving Little Movie Part
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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Audience Far Hate Listen Something
Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Dave Favorite People Favorite Performance
I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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Grew Job Mom School Single Waitress
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
It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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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
The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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Funding Invasion Land Really Stopping Way
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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Thinking Tv Shows Years
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.
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Aggressive Movement Political Ridiculous Thinking
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.
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Country Culture Disengaged Government People Process Thinking
There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Federal Joke More Nothing People Reserve
Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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Began Fact Hardly Plan Republican Socialism
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.
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Care People Sense Talking
In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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Company Country Invested Manufacturing Open Wages

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