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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

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.
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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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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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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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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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