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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.

Adam McKay

There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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Improv Less People Something Think Thinking Truth Way
I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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Grew Job Mom School Single Waitress
I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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Artistic Heart History Lying Message Moment Played Thinking Well
Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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Always Blanket Cynicism Excited Government Toward
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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Backbone Central Circle Everything Idea
I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Cultural Elite Myself
There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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Always Control Pro Thing
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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Break Country Ideology Mes Pointing Really Stuff
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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Funding Invasion Land Really Stopping Way
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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Darker Explore Mirror People Punch Shelve
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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Anand Thakur
Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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Exhausted Hit Normally Start Three Two Yawning
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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Action Critic Following Movie Outdated Savage Special Weekend
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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Care People Sense Talking
Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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Advice Call People Time Want
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Carrots Creative Creative Freedom

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