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I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure. ”
Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do. ”
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. ”
Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises. ”
Comedies are something I'd be very interesting in doing. ”
I want to be host of 'SNL.' I want to work with Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, J.J. Abrams, Emma Stone and Tim Burton, Sean Penn, Cameron Crowe. I want to work with Adam Sandler - he is so funny - and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. ”
Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life. ”
I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity. ”
I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do. ”
Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a comedy. ”