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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.

Adam McKay

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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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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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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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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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