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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.

Adam McKay

Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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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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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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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 are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.

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