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Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
You can’t do anything to be funny. That’s cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don’t make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.
I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.
Humor is healing.
There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different – I love L.A.!
All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.
But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.
Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.