Adam McKay Quotes, Hollywood Quotes, Filters Quotes

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

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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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I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture. It's one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America. It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.

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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we'd been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don't think people really saw this guy for what he was.

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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

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

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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

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We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

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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 screwed and ill-informed.

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

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

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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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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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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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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it's just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.

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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”

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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

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