Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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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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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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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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