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Adam McKay

Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Animal Behaving Funny Rarely Talking
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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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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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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Always Control Pro Thing
In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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Company Country Invested Manufacturing Open Wages
For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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Corporation Create Definition Fascism Merging State
Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Anything Day Information Much Really Tell
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Aspect Directing Mind People Place
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 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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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Blazing Ever Funniest Made Movie Saddles
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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Corporation Definition Exclude Mention Webster
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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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Cultural Elite Myself
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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