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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.

Adam McKay

Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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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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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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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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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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