Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
ADAM MCKAYAs for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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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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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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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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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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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 idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.
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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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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 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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