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I Look For The Meaning In What's Funny, And I Look For What's Funny About Things That Are Meaningful To Me.

I Have A Great Respect For The Moviegoing Experience. It's Such A Unique Thing. You're Not Getting Up And Walking Around The House Or Flipping Channels During The Dull Parts. You're In A Dark Space, And The Movie Fills Most Of Your Field Of Vision. You're Surrounded By Sound, And The Colors Are Deeply Saturated, And Faces Are Fifteen Feet High. If It's Done Well, You're Really Going To Feel Some Big Emotions Or Have Some Big Belly Laughs.

I Did A Comedy With Al Franken About His Character Stuart Smalley, Which Was Really About Alcoholism And Addiction And Codependency. It Had Some Painful Stuff In It. When We Showed It To Focus Groups, Some Of Them Actually Said, "if I Want To See A Dysfunctional Family, I'll Stay Home."

Some People Have A Fear Of Rejecting All The Security That Comes With Family, Church And State. They Become Fundamentalists.

There's A Personal Story Of My Own That I Will Write At Some Point, And It's A Film That I Will Happily Make. It Could Very Well Be The Next Thing I Do, Unless Someone Shows Me Something Great.