Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
ADAM MCKAYIn 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.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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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 a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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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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