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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

— Barry Sonnenfeld

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✓Similar Perspectives

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

— Barry Sonnenfeld

It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

— J. B. Smoove

When I did 'Good Guys Wear Black,' I had a lot of dialogue in that movie.

— Chuck Norris

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.

— Matt Stone

Every black film feels like it's Tyler Perry, and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly be looking for what else is out there - 'Is there something else besides this type of humor?' 'I'm tired of seeing men in dresses.'

— Issa Rae

There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.

— Madeleine Stowe

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

— Raquel Cassidy

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

— Tom Stoppard

✗Opposing Perspectives

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

— Terry Southern

If you look at 'The Best Man,' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.

— Malcolm D. Lee