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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.

Adam McKay

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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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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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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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