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 MCKAYWe get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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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 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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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