Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
Adam McKay
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
I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
Adam McKay
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
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
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
Adam McKay
Other than Green Day, we haven’t had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
Adam McKay
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.
Adam McKay
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
Adam McKay
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?
Adam McKay
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?
Adam McKay
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
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.
Adam McKay
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
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
I’m a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to ’83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
Adam McKay
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
Adam McKay
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.
Adam McKay
When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that’s when you really see what the movie is.
Adam McKay
You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don’t notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
Adam McKay
White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
Adam McKay
Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they’re not an American corporation. They don’t work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.
Adam McKay
There’s nothing more fun than making fun of what’s sacred.
Adam McKay
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
Adam McKay
There’s nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
Adam McKay
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
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
The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
Adam McKay
If you’re making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
Adam McKay
Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
Adam McKay
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
It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
Adam McKay
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.
Adam McKay
Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
Adam McKay
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.
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.
Adam McKay
I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
Adam McKay
I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
Adam McKay
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.
Adam McKay
There’s nothing more American than movies.
Adam McKay
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?
Adam McKay
My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: ‘Who’s reviewing parking lots?’
Adam McKay
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.
Adam McKay
Having two kids, I don’t get out to see stand up much anymore.
Adam McKay
Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot.
Adam McKay
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
Adam McKay
If you do a Western that’s funny, there’s no way people don’t call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
Adam McKay
If you go back and watch ‘The French Connection,’ it’s been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, ‘This isn’t so great.’ And the reason it isn’t so great is because everyone has copied it.
Adam McKay
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.
Adam McKay
Tom Brokaw was never young.
Adam McKay
I guess HBO did a giant ‘War in the Pacific’ mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and there was a little moment where they literally had no money. And even though the show had become kind of a cult hit, there was an issue of whether they could actually afford to do it.
Adam McKay
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
Adam McKay
There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
Adam McKay