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

Adam McKay

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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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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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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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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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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