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"Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they were able to make with the characters."
"I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny."
"What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade."
"I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down."
"Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good."
"It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing."
"I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things."
"Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something."
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"You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world."
"Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy."
"I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy."
"What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it."
"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."
"Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!"
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