Adam McKay

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

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

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

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

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

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 Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

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

I love Paul Rudd.

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 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.

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