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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Adam McKay

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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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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There 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.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Hollywood 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.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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