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" All my movies, as I get the ability to do it, they tend to go a little darker, a little darker. "
Get
Movies
Darker
" Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions. "
Bad
You
Vegas
" Comedies are just never that expensive quite frankly. They really aren't. We aren't doing green screen shooting, so even Hangover II in Bangkok might seem like it's expensive, you're flying over and back, but they're just not that expensive to make when you do it the way we do it which is very focused and I've done it before. "
Done
Doing
Green
" Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy. "
People
You
Why
" Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it. "
Understand
Job
People
" I'd love to do a movie with females in it, and not necessarily the female version of 'The Hangover,' but I'd love to. If I did it it'd star Juliette Lewis, because she's the funniest woman in the world. She's my favorite actress on the planet. If we did a character-based comedy about women, I don't see it out of my range. "
World
Comedy
Love
" I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas. "
Scared
Film
Horror
" I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there, and there is this unspoken trust, both ways. They trust me and I trust them. And I know what I'm going to get from them, to an extent. It's just fun, kind of creating this little family. "
Family
Know
Fun
" I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.' "
Academy
Writing
Nominated
" I just love the look of film. But I have nothing against HD. "
Just
Against
Nothing
" I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen. "
Better
Danger
Feeling
" I'm first and foremost a company man, surprising as that is. I love Warner Brothers. That's where I have a deal. That's where I've been for years. So I don't really interact too much with other studios and do things with other studios and I don't necessarily read scripts from other studios. "
Too Much
Love
Company
" I'm not a huge fan of 3-D, though. Honestly, I think that movies are an immersive experience and an audience experience. There's nothing like seeing a film with 500 people in a theater. And there's something about putting on 3-D glasses that makes it a very singular experience for me. Suddenly I'm not connected to the audience anymore. "
Glasses
Experience
People
" I never had a ton of male friends and it's always been something that's really interesting to me, what brings guys together? The bonding. 'Old School' is a good example of that. And even 'Starsky' and even 'Road Trip.' "
Me
Together
School
" I really got into filmmaking through photography. "
Through
Photography
Filmmaking
" I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie. "
You
Experience
Writing
" I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue. "
Music
Think
Kind
" I tend to make movies about my peer group. I couldn't see myself now going back and making a movie about a bunch of college kids, necessarily. I kind of always operate in the things I'm observing around me, whether it's friends having babies now in my life or what have you. "
College
Myself
You
" I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.' "
Day
Boy
Down
" I think comedy directors tend to feel a need to justify the bad behavior, and I just never think that. I like bad behavior, I've always liked bad behavior, I'm a fan of bad behavior, and I don't think you have to justify bad behavior. "
Think
Bad
Behavior
" I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff. "
You
Like
Funny
" I think reviewers have become particularly venomous because, in a way, the power has been sucked from them. A 15-year-old can write a review on the Internet and it means as much as Roger Ebert's review, and that just makes Roger Ebert mad, so he comes out harder and stronger. "
Mad
Think
Stronger
" I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I,' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher. "
Funny
God
Higher
" It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill. "
Thrill
Escapism
About
" It's heartbreaking when you hear a kid buying a ticket for... I don't know, whatever movie you're up against. And you see them sneaking into your film. It's just heartbreaking. But in the spirit of full disclosure, that is what I did as an 11-year-old sneaking into 'Stripes.' "
You
Stripes
Spirit
" I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing. "
Your
Group
Own
" John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman. "
Pretty
Love
Dark
" My dog's a gentleman. "
Gentleman
Dog
" Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion. "
Audience
Serve
Need
" Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape. There is this breed of gimmicky documentary that is basically a reality show. "
Reality
Television
Great
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