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David R. Ellis

"Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do."

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"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."

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"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."

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"I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy."

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"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."

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"You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences."

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"Now, if you have never been hit by a flying burrito, count yourself lucky. In terms of deadly projectiles, it's right up there with grenades and cannonballs."

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"Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity."

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"I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull."

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"I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing."

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"I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented."

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David R. Ellis
"Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that."

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David R. Ellis
"I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money."

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David R. Ellis
"You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character."

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David R. Ellis
"You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in."

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David R. Ellis
"They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up."

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David R. Ellis
"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."

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David R. Ellis
"Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do."

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David R. Ellis
"So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever."

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David R. Ellis
"Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies."

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David R. Ellis
"I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew."

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