Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.
Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.
Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
People still talk about a British sense of humour, or French slapstick or how the Germans have no sense of humour - and it's just rubbish. I do strongly feel that we are all the bloody same.
I didn't understand Southland Tales script at all! Is there a single word to describe it? Cacophony? It's celebrity meets pornography meets politics - it's unlike anything I've ever seen in my life. And slapstick humor, communism; I mean, what doesn't it have? It's crazy. I didn't go to Cannes, but I guess the first cut was three and a half hours or something?
I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.
Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.
If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
