I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.
If I tried to do comedy for the rest of my career, I would not be very successful.
When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it's always tempting to think everything has to be big and exaggerated and spectacular. And in fact, a lot of the funniest comedy films have been very intimate.
I think I have never seen a humorless movie that was any good to me.
It's tricky: with comedy in any movie, you're hungry for an audience to embrace a movie and be a part of an experience that's comedic; it's the easier way to go in some ways.
Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.
After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
You cannot have the drama without comedy.
Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.
I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy film. I set my own trends. I like to give something new and different to my audiences. I want to do the kind of comedy that has been missing till now.