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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.

I like to watch comedies; the most dramatic that I used to get was 'Forrest Gump.'

I like comedies in general.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

I've always been interested in the Depression as this very dramatic pivotal period in American history.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.