If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
ADAM MCKAYAnimals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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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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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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