In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.
From Paul Feig
I've always enjoyed people studying themselves in the mirror, and I also enjoy those 'walk and feel bad' shots. I like anything that isolates people and focuses them on themselves, or makes us focus on their faces as they're going through something.
For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.
My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.
Whatever makes you laugh is fine, and all we can do as comedy professionals is try to steer you towards something that we think is a little better - but not put you down or just perplex you in the process.
What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.
I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.
The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.
At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.
One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.
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