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Adam McKay

I 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.
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Addict Animation Comedy Great People Want Understand
I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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Care People Sense Talking
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Carrots Creative Creative Freedom
It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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Aiming Break Comedy Country Damage Dangerous Ideology People Possession
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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Crazy Fairly Funny Ice People Serious Situation
There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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Improv Less People Something Think Thinking Truth Way
The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.
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Hour Idea Insane News Pretty Twenty Four
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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Easiest Ice Serious Situation Break Time Way
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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Directors Favorite Filmmaker People Probably
I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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Announcing Comedy Dangerous Intention Room Thinking
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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Company Country Invested Manufacturing Open Wages
There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Federal Joke More Nothing People Reserve
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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Darker Explore Mirror People Punch Shelve
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
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Around Comedy Funniest Guy People Two World
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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Couple First Laughing Movie Screen Time Trying Work

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