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. ”

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

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. ”

The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer. ”

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. ”

I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma. ”

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? ”

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. ”

There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred. ”

With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less. ”