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

Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.

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.

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.

The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

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.

It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.

'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.

Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.

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'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.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

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.

There's nothing more American than movies.

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.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

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.

Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.

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?

My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'

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.

Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.

Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

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.

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.

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.

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.

Tom Brokaw was never young.

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.

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

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.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

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.

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.

I love action movies.

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.

Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.

A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.

Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.

If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

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.

I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.

I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

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

I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.

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.

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.

Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.

When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

Sequels are desperate.

Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.

I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.

Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.

I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.

First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

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

You're not a slave to those test audiences.

The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.

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.

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

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.

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.

There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.

I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.

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

I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.

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

In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.

Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.

You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.

I love Paul Rudd.

I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.

My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.

Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

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

We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'

A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.

I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.

My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.

I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.

I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.

'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.

For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.

The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

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