Adam McKay Quotes, Expectations Quotes, Perception Quotes

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

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

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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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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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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

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

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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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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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Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.

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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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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you're not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don't agree with that.

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

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

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

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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

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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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“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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