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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.

Adam McKay

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
ADAM MCKAY

Exhausted Hit Normally Start Three Two Yawning
It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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According Country People Poll Pretty Progressive Support
I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
ADAM MCKAY

Announcing Comedy Dangerous Intention Room Thinking
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
ADAM MCKAY

Director Do Really Tone
It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
ADAM MCKAY

Break Country Ideology Mes Pointing Really Stuff
There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
ADAM MCKAY

Federal Joke More Nothing People Reserve
Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
ADAM MCKAY

Advice Call People Time Want
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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Government Helping Loan Show Successfully Themselves University World
Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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Bigs Hollywood Imagine
Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
ADAM MCKAY

Funny Man never Old Phone
We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
ADAM MCKAY

Anything Day Information Much Really Tell
The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.
ADAM MCKAY

Hour Idea Insane News Pretty Twenty Four
“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
ADAM MCKAY

Government Military Scary
I always give myself a little part in every movie.
ADAM MCKAY

Every Giving Little Movie Part
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

Article Click First Interview Movie Part People Walt Whitman
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Anything Governing Grossest Immediately m Part Political Population Reek Worst

Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.

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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.

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