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Sequels are desperate.
~ Adam McKay
Desperate
Sequels
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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
Been
Breaks
Corporations
Deal
Entitlement
Families
Finding
Get
Government
New
New Deal
New Ways
Non-Stop
Since
Tax
Tax Breaks
Ways
Wealthy
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Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.
~ Adam McKay
Ahead
Built
Conscious
Dressed
Everyone
Going
Got
Here
Joke
Know
Most
Never
Out
Really
Set
Sometimes
Stream
Time
Until
Up
Yell
You
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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.
~ Adam McKay
Amazing
American
Autonomy
Coolest
Corporation
Heads
I Think
Lot
Part
Quite
Really
Rules
Same
Sony
Studio
Think
Work
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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
Always
Beat
Because
First
First One
Get
Go
How
How Much
Much
Out
Repeat
See
Sequel
Sequels
Trick
You
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
~ Adam McKay
Academy
Police
Stuff
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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.
~ Adam McKay
Abortion
Against
Arabia
Arrangement
Corporate
Cuts
Fires
Gay
Gay Marriage
House
Marriage
Old
Push
Religious
Religious Right
Rich
Right
Same
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
Tax
Tax Cuts
Trick
Up
Uses
Votes
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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.
~ Adam McKay
American
Big
Corporations
Created
Crush
Government
Leaving
Lobbyists
Media
Press
Purchase
Screwed
Washington
Worthless
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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.
~ Adam McKay
Break
Crazy
Easiest
Even
Fairly
Funerals
Funny
Get
Huge
Ice
Laughs
People
Serious
Situation
Time
Way
Will
You
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
~ Adam McKay
Hard
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Laughing
Making
Seat
Someone
Sounds
The Hardest Thing
Theater
Thing
Weird
World
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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.
~ Adam McKay
Almost
Back
Even
Idea
Insane
Just
News
Pretty
Really
Satire
Saying
Step
You
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
~ Adam McKay
Beats
Emotional
Enough
Good
Good Story
Hit
Key
Story
You
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
~ Adam McKay
Driver
French
Gay
Living
NASCAR
Nightmare
Red
State
Would
Would-Be
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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.
~ Adam McKay
Banking
Caught
Comedy
Coming
Crisis
Destroying
Does
Going
Gulf
I Think
Just
Kind
Mexico
Out
Outrage
Over-The-Top
People
Quite
Really
See
Stuff
Think
Up
You
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The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine Dion, you'd like Celine Dion.
~ Adam McKay
Ate
Fantastic
Gotten
Like
Thing
You
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
~ Adam McKay
America
Broken
Computer
Crucial
Facts
Find
Hour
Information
Must
Numbers
Order
Outside
Person
Perspectives
Searching
Spend
Truth
Truth Is
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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.
~ Adam McKay
Al-Qaeda
Anything
Funding
Land
Really
Stop
Stopping
Way
You
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
~ Adam McKay
Aspects
Directing
Many
Minds
People
Place
Romantic
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There's nothing more American than movies.
~ Adam McKay
American
More
Movies
Nothing
Than
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There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
~ Adam McKay
Fun
Making
More
Nothing
Sacred
Than
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