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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More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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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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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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