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ADAM MCKAYI grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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There’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.
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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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