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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.

Adam McKay

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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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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 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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