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Adam McKay

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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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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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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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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