Adam McKay Quotes

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• All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
• The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans…
• The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals,…
• Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
• Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
• As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
• Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word…
• Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
• Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
• If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special…
• For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me…
• All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
• 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…
• The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
• White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
• Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
• Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was…
• I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.
• Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.
• 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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