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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.

Adam McKay

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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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’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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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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 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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