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

— Adam McKay

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

— Adam McKay

First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you have to 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.

— Adam McKay

I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.

— Adam McKay

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

— Adam McKay

McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.

— Adam McKay

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

— Adam McKay

Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.

— Adam McKay

Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.

— Adam McKay

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

— Adam McKay