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Adam McKay

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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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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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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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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 easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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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