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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

Adam McKay

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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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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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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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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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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