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"A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs."
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"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."
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"Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof."
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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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"You can't always go by the book, even in comedy."
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"Have a chocolate-covered raisin, he said."They look like rat droppings, said the Chair.The Dean peered at them in the gloom."So that's it, he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot."
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"In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there."
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"A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs."
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"I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script."
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"I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much."
Love
"That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further."
Actor
"Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally."
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"You just never know when you're living in a golden age."
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"But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about."
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