All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
ADAM MCKAYWhen 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.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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 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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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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