As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
ADAM MCKAYIt’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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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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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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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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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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