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

Adam McKay

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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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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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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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 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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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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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