You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
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… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSNBC three hundred… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.' — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious.… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine Dion, you'd like Celine… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran?… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government. — Adam McKay Copy Share
I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up… — Adam McKay Copy Share
The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians,… — Adam McKay Copy Share
I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process… — Adam McKay Copy Share
If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone… — Adam McKay Copy Share
Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement. — Adam McKay Copy Share
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… — Adam McKay Copy Share
A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander. — Adam McKay Copy Share
I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven. — Adam McKay Copy Share
