You're not a slave to those test audiences.
From Adam McKay
The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.
There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.
I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
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