218 Quotes by Adam McKay

Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.

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

When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.

You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

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.

You're not a slave to those test audiences.