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.
ADAM MCKAYI’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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 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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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