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"Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play."
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"I had to stop myself from laughing. Who needs help taking a pill?"
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"This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one."
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"I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force."
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"I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first."
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"I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy."
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"My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy."
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"I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries."
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"The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh."
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"Dying is easy; comedy is hard."
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"Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself."
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"I was an accomplice in my own frustration."
Frustration
"They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all."
Drama
"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."
Books
"Librarians as a race tend to be tedious."
Race
"Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play."
Comedy
"I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did."
Actor
"I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character."
Music
"I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England."
America
"Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it."
Life
"Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish."
Love
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