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
Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.
With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.
A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.
White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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.
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.
There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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.
After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.
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.
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.
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.
Tom Brokaw was never young.
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.
First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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.
My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSNBC three hundred channels down the dial.
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.
Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot.
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're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'
'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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.
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.
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.
Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.
The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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.
I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.
'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.
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
