Adam McKay Quotes, Directors Quotes

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

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It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.

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There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

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Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

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I think what's dangerous [about comedy] is that you're coming into the room announcing your intentions.

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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.

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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

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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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Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.

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I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

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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 always give myself a little part in every movie.

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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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White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

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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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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. 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. Sometimes you'll put something in and it will just die so hard that it'll almost kill the movie.

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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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