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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

My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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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.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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.
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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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.
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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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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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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.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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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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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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