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. It's one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America. 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.

Adam McKay

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Creative freedom is a huge carrot. by Adam McKay

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

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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.

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

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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation... by Adam McKay

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

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

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

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

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

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We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience g... by Adam McKay

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

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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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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.

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

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

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As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.

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

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

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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.

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There's always way less improv than people think. The truth is so... by Adam McKay

There's always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.

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

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

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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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I always give myself a little part in every movie. by Adam McKay

I always give myself a little part in every movie.

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