Adam McKay
Adam McKay
Adam McKayis an American film director, producer, screenwriter, comedian, and actor. McKay served as head writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live for two seasons. He directed Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Step Brothers, The Other Guys, and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. McKay has a creative partnership with actor Will Ferrell, with whom he co-wrote all except one of these films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth17 April 1968
CityDenver, CO
CountryUnited States of America
Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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.
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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.
The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.
I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.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 one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort.
'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'