Adam McKay Quotes

You never know why something works or doesn't.

'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

There's no map to human behaviour.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything.

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

Teenagers are like atoms when they're moving at hundreds of miles an hour and bouncing off each other. Everybody's got such a crazy hormonal drive and reacting to each other differently and getting upset over little things. High school puts all these potential explosions in one place.

I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.

When it comes to our perceptions, one is an event, two is a pattern, three is a trend, and four is fact.

I'm definitely an observer of human behavior. I always have been.

It's very hard to get inside Donald Trump's brain, and I don't want to try.

You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.

Data is a tool for enhancing intuition.

I find often people wait to order until I order. And then I love upsetting them. Sometimes I'll order a cheeseburger and macaroni and cheese.

I am still very observant. I am absorbed by people and why they do what they do.

Whenever I go out with other married couples, I like to bring along a single crackhead. Just to spice things up.

One of the best things about humans is we recognize patterns, so we get things like science, music, philosophy. One of the worst things is that we see patterns that are not there so we get things like racism, homophobia and Jerry Falwell.

I'm a people person. I like being with people. So I like being a teacher, and so on.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.