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Adam McKay

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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Article Click First Interview Movie Part People Walt Whitman
“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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Government Military Scary
Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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Almost Die Hard Kill Movie Put Something
Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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Audience Comedy Expectation Most Perception
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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Belief Company Employee People Run Running Treat
Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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Better Do Ferrel Just Time Voice Wrote
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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Class Every Increase Lying Tax Time Warfare Wealthy
I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Cultural Elite Myself
We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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Backbone Central Circle Everything Idea
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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Actor Area Counting Everyone Line Rolling Sort Talk
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.
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Able Action Amazing Fan Film Giant Kind Love Movie
The 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.
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Anything Governing Grossest Immediately m Part Political Population Reek Worst
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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Darker Explore Mirror People Punch Shelve
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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Better Comedy Hustle Kung Fu Hustle Money Movie Thinking Year Yera
It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Crazy Funeral Huge Laugh People
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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Break Country Ideology Mes Pointing Really Stuff

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