Quotes from Adam McKay

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.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant public high school with the metal detectors and the smoking lounge.

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.

Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.

Sequels are desperate.

I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.

Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

You're not a slave to those test audiences.

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?

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