Adam McKay Quotes, Government Quotes, Cynicism Quotes

Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn't really tell us anything.

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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

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I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

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

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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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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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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 a Republican plan to begin with.

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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 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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals - always funny.

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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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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 over.

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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

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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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