Top 184 Quotes & Sayings by Adam McKay
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Last updated on December 14, 2024.
There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.
Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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.
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.
There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.
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.
My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.
'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.
Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.
The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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?
You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'
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.
America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
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.
Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
There's nothing more American than movies.
Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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.
Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot.
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.
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.
I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.
Governor Palin leans far closer to 'spokesperson' than representative of the people.
There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.
Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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.
I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
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.
I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
'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.
You're not a slave to those test audiences.
If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
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