But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.
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.
I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.
A lot of filmmaking is an endurance contest between you and the people you're filming. Every time that you relax, I promise you, something interesting will happen.
Most of the time you spend filming a show is time you spend without the cameras on, when you're not acting.
Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.
Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until it's over.
You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.
It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.