Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
ADAM MCKAYMy 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.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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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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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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