Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
ADAM MCKAYDave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
ADAM MCKAYDavid O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
ADAM MCKAYYou could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
ADAM MCKAYThe way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
ADAM MCKAYIt’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
ADAM MCKAYI 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.
ADAM MCKAYAs for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
ADAM MCKAYHollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
ADAM MCKAYIf you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
ADAM MCKAYIf all else fails, you can always be a pro.
ADAM MCKAYIn 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.
ADAM MCKAYNothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
ADAM MCKAYHollywood 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.
ADAM MCKAYIn general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
ADAM MCKAYThere 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.
ADAM MCKAYIt’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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