It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
ADAM MCKAYIn general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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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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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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