“I cast unusual people in my movies.”
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Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.
I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.
