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"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
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"I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed."
"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."
"We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them."
"Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended."
"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."
"I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year."
"Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with."
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"So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long."
"It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen."
"The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire."
"While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour."
"You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good."
"Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey."
"I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration."
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