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Adam McKay Quotes

Tom Brokaw was never young.

– Adam McKay

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.

– Adam McKay

My theme song is ‘One Tin Soldier’ by Coven.

– Adam McKay

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.

– Adam McKay

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?

– Adam McKay

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

– Adam McKay

I guess HBO did a giant ‘War in the Pacific’ mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and there was a little moment where they literally had no money. And even though the show had become kind of a cult hit, there was an issue of whether they could actually afford to do it.

– Adam McKay

There’s nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.

– Adam McKay

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

– Adam McKay

I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.

– Adam McKay

Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant public high school with the metal detectors and the smoking lounge.

– Adam McKay

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

– Adam McKay

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

– Adam McKay

I’m a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to ’83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.

– Adam McKay

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

– Adam McKay

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.

– Adam McKay

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.

– Adam McKay

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.

– Adam McKay

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

– Adam McKay

I love action movies.

– Adam McKay

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

– Adam McKay

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.

– Adam McKay

Things I used to get in trouble for writing at ‘SNL,’ suddenly other people like it.

– Adam McKay

You can’t really do a big character in an action film; you’re already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.

– Adam McKay

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

– Adam McKay

George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?

– Adam McKay

That’s always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it’s beat for beat.

– Adam McKay

Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You’re already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren’t.

– Adam McKay

Since FDR’s New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.

– Adam McKay

First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is… whatever. I don’t care about that.

– Adam McKay

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