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

Adam McKay

I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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Corporation Create Definition Fascism Merging State
“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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Government Military Scary
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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Funding Invasion Land Really Stopping Way
I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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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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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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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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Care People Sense Talking
Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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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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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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