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 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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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