Adam McKay

“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...”

“I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people l...”

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

“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 qu...”

“Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.”

“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.”

“Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.”

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

“Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.”

“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.”

“The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of...”

“With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.”

“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...”

“Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.”

“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...”

“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 mass...”

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

“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 t...”

“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.”

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