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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film

Adam McKay

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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Else Fail Failing Pro
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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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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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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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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