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Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you don't have to worry where the laugh is going to be. But comedy is harder than drama.

I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component of expressing character.

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.