The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.
Bouncing ideas off people when you're thinking up comedy is great.
I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.
With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.
When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.
With every movie, I try to do something different, whether it's action, comedy or drama.
There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.
When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.