I love action movies.
— Adam McKay
Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
Tom Brokaw was never young.
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.
Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot.
My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
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.
There's nothing more American than movies.
I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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.
It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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.
There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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.
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.
Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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?
Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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.
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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.
The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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.
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.
The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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.
Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
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.
I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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.
'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.
Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
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.
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
