Adam McKay Quotes, Confusion Quotes, Junk Quotes

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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

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

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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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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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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'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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

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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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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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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

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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 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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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

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

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