Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
ADAM MCKAYI would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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