Adam McKay Quotes

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Adam McKay

Profession : Writer

Birth : April 17, 1968

'Step Brothers 2' would have been fun, there's no doubt about it. Maybe someday. Does that idea age? I don't know. It all depends on how the movie ages.

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Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.

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'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.

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You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'

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For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.

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For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.

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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.

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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

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I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.

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It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

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Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSNBC three hundred channels down the dial.

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My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'

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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.

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'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.

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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

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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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