We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
ADAM MCKAYI 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.
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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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 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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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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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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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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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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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