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

Adam McKay

Hollywood 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.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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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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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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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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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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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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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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