Adam McKay Quotes, Hollywood Quotes, Imagine Quotes

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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

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

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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.

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

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

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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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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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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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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

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

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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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There's always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.

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

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

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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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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.

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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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