Adam McKay famous quotes

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

#Directors #Tone

Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
-- Adam McKay

#Obamacare #Facts #Republican

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

#Interviews #Firsts #Articles

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.
-- Adam McKay

#Lying #Class #Warfare

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

#Ideas #Insane #News

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

#Silly #Dumb #Doubt

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
-- Adam McKay

#My Favorite #Dave #Performances

There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
-- Adam McKay

#People #Federal Reserve #Jokes

Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
-- Adam McKay

#Advice #Want #Call Me

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
-- Adam McKay

#Directors #My Favorite #Filmmaker

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.
-- Adam McKay

#Confusion #Junk #Different

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
-- Adam McKay

#People #Mind #Aspect

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
-- Adam McKay

#Care #Able #Failing

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

#Made #Saddles #Blazing

Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
-- Adam McKay

#Two #Guy #World

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
-- Adam McKay

#White #Bored #Dollars

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

#Crush #Running #Government

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

#Crazy #Ice #People

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
-- Adam McKay

#People #Dangerous #Folks

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
-- Adam McKay

#Thinking #Skin Color #Judging

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
-- Adam McKay

#Hate #Audience

Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
-- Adam McKay

#Would Be #Definitions #Corporations

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
-- Adam McKay

#Creative #Carrots

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
-- Adam McKay

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
-- Adam McKay

#Special #Savages #Action

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

#Thinking #Years #Hustle

All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
-- Adam McKay

#Powerful #Vote

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.
-- Adam McKay

#Talking #People #Alabama

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

#Land #Stopping #Invasion

'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
-- Adam McKay

#Military #Government #Scary