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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.

Adam McKay

The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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 are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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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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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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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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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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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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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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