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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 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."
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"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."
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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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"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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"No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such."
Sex
"At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow."
Thought
"I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond."
Stars
"And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond."
Character
"Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore."
Actor
"I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything."
Comedy
"We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself."
Time
"Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing."
Money
"Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know."
Entertainment
"I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself."
Film
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