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

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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Anything Day Information Much Really Tell
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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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Country Culture Disengaged Government People Process Thinking
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Action Critic Following Movie Outdated Savage Special Weekend
I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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Anything Backward Color Judging Skin Someone Thinking
There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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Always Control Pro Thing
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Carrots Creative Creative Freedom
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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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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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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Government Military Scary

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