Adam McKay Quotes

There's a lot of things you can't control. But you can always be a pro.

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There's such an aggressively apolitical movement in the US that anything that smells of being political - even the term "political" is so ridiculous, when you think about it. The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that's what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.

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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.

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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

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

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

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I've gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.

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Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.

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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.

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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

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

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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, people will get huge laughs.

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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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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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