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Adam McKay

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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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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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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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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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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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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 think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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“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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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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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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