Adam McKay Quotes

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Adam McKay

Profession : Writer

Birth : April 17, 1968

Tom Brokaw was never young.

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A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.

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Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.

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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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Governor Palin leans far closer to 'spokesperson' than representative of the people.

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I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.

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It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.

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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

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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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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.

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When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.

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

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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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There's nothing more American than movies.

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Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.

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Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.

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It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?

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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

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Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.

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