The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.
I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.
It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of find out very last minute sort of what's happening.
Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.
Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.
I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.
A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'
I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.
We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us.
Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.
Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.
At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.
One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.
You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.
Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.
My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.
Make intercessory prayer a priority in your life and the life of your family. It will cause you to be more empathetic, less self-obsessed, and increasingly more like Christ.
