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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More Adam McKay Quotes
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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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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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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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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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I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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