Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
ADAM MCKAYThe one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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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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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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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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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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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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.
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