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I am desperate to do a comedy now. ”
Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way. ”
If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay. ”
If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment. ”
At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.' ”
The thing to keep in mind is that's how I started long before MTV and Twitter and Facebook. I studied at broadcasting school so I could learn how to shoot and edit videos, and tried to create my own television show so we could see through these wacky visions we had of funny bits we wanted to shoot. ”
If an audience is loud and in a party mode, that's an audience that can absorb comedy. ”
I think all comedy has victims, really. Even if it's not a victim that appears on camera, usually there's a victim. If it's political comedy, if you're talking about the president or whoever, there's a victim there. ”
Comedy is delivered to people in the same form that music is being delivered: by YouTube. People are sharing music and comedy in the same way now. ”
I've always really enjoyed sounds and alliteration and funny words and funny melodies. ”