Adam McKay Quotes:- Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. McKay began his career as a head writer for the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2001.
Following his departure from SNL, he rose to fame in the 2000s for his collaborations with comedian Will Ferrell and co-wrote his comedy films Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys. Ferrell and McKay later co-wrote and co-produced numerous television series and films, with McKay himself co-producing their website Funny or Die through their company Gary Sanchez Productions.
Inspirational Adam McKay Quotes and Sayings
“Creative freedom is a huge carrot.”
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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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“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.”
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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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“I am actually talking about possibly adapting ‘The Boys,’ by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.”
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“Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I’m watching a movie or a TV show and there’s that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.”
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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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“Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.”
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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 love ‘The Wire;’ that’s my favorite show, so I’ll watch that.”
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“Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a payout to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.”
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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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Famous Quotes by Adam McKay
“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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“I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.”
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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.”
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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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“It’s time Hawaii answers doubters and produces documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven’t we seen these documents?”
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“A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.”
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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.”
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“All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.”
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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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“I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby.”
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“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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“You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.”
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Best Motivational Quotes by Adam McKay
“For ‘Breaking Bad,’ people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.”
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“First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is… whatever. I don’t care about that.”
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“I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.”
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“Other than Green Day, we haven’t had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.”
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“I think there’s a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn’t been my experience. I’m certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.”
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“The thing is, I’ve gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks with Celine Dion, you’d like Celine Dion.”
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“As far as what makes a viral video, then it’s gotta be something that you’ve either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.”
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“I think I’m better than Mamet, I would say.”
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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.”
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Top 10 Adam McKay Quotes
“After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.”
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“There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.”
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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 the past, in the ’60s and ’70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.”
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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 a stream of consciousness. You never really know it until you’ve got everyone dressed up, the set is built, and all the extras are here.”
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“I would never do ‘Stardust Memories’ because I don’t particularly like that kind of movie – that would be why I wouldn’t do that.”
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“I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.”
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“Every time a congressman or pundit says it ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.”
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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.”
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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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“Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.”
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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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