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"These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip."
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"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."
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"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
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"Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching."
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"When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group."
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"We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?"
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"A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada."
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"Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny."
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"Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos."
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"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."
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"Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!"
Appreciation
"I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy."
Love
"I took some time out for life."
Life
"I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy."
Idea
"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."
Work
"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."
Actor
"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."
Sense
"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."
News
"I'm big on research."
Research
"I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny."
Funny
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