As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
ADAM MCKAYAs far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
ADAM MCKAYAll you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
ADAM MCKAYWhite-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
ADAM MCKAYThere’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.
ADAM MCKAYAnyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
ADAM MCKAYI 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.
ADAM MCKAYCreative freedom is a huge carrot.
ADAM MCKAYThe easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
ADAM MCKAYBlazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
ADAM MCKAYThe 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 MCKAYAny time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
ADAM MCKAYCan anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
ADAM MCKAYThe way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
ADAM MCKAYThe 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.
ADAM MCKAYThe one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
ADAM MCKAYI got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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