A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander. Adam McKay More Quotes by Adam McKay More Quotes From Adam McKay The one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort. Adam McKay wasteeffortwant I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite. Adam McKay elitesmight I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good. Adam McKay financebankingessentials In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money. Adam McKay filtersfinalshollywood There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist. Adam McKay tv-showsyearsthinking It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you're not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don't agree with that. Adam McKay supportamericapeople I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster. Adam McKay jobsartthinking I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps. My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school. I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully. Adam McKay momjobsschool Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film's not rolling. There's constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, "Why did my line count drop?" It's a nasty tense environment. Adam McKay rollinglinesactors I felt like it was time once again to kind of talk about these issues, i mean everyone tried to act like the collapse was over with, we swept everything under the carpet, did a little bit of reform, we're done, and to me, it felt like a conversation we should be having always, or at least for the next 10 years. Adam McKay entertainment What it really shows you is that these banks are built to make profits ... And much like a shark, they're gonna always swim towards where the injured fish is and we just have to be aware of that, until we change the laws that underpin these banks and corporate structures, nothing's gonna change ... I wanted people to be a little angry, a little worried, and just to kind of give everyone a heads up like, this is still in play, this isn't just something that ends and you move on. Adam McKay entertainment The idea of the banks setting their own rules will not work, the only question is do we feel pain to come to that point of change or do we do it before the pain comes. Adam McKay entertainment One of the ideas was a question of just what would happen if that celebrity culture actually told you things you needed to hear. Adam McKay entertainment The Big Short you're talking about the advent of hip hop, child soldiers, the sex scandal in Catholic church and malfeasance in Wall Street - I'm pretty proud of that for Hollywood. Adam McKay entertainment 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 findingnewgetgovernment 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 abortionrichmarriagegay Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle. Adam McKay wildnothingchaosanimal 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. Adam McKay goodmeyoutime Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it. Adam McKay thinkcreativeworldideas When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something. Adam McKay somethinglookpoliticalfire
