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" Films do have suspense and tensions and scares and jumps, and I like to write things that have both in them, comedy and horror, but sometimes they are hard to balance. "

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" If the 'Boosh' was a bit more of a specific thing, or less multi-limbed, we would probably have done it and moved on. "

Julian Barratt

Would

Bit

" Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out. "

" I've done interviews in the past where, apparently, I didn't give the journalist any eye contact. I'm a bit shy, yes. I've thought about refusing to do any press at all. "

" I find the pressure to be funny when you're being interviewed live - quite intense. "

" I was in a band called Groove Solution. Because there was a groove crisis, and we solved it. "

" I've been a horror fan pretty much in the sense that my sense of horror and my sense of humor were both equally kindled by films as a kid. "

" I don't do stand-up anymore. "

Julian Barratt

Stand-Up

Anymore

" I can act with either eye, but you've got to be twice as good as an actor to act with one eye. You need to put all your emotions just through one eye and really punch it out of that eye. I found it quite difficult to do at first, and then I found a technique that allowed me to act with one eye, which I patented. "

Julian Barratt

Eye

Need

" I'm not a natural comic, I don't think. That's why I gave up stand-up. It was hard. It involved a lot of death. Dying. Dying on stage. But it's one of those jobs you can only learn by doing it. "

" You don't need a high concept to make a great film, of course. 'Withnail & I' is not - it's probably not much on paper, but it's one of the funniest films ever made. "

" People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to Monty Python and Vic Reeves. We're not like Ricky Gervais's hyper-real cringe comedy. We're at the other end of the scale, but there's room for the sillier stuff, too. "

" We should send a load of bad celebrities to colonise Mars. They would have to mate in space, and then their children would be sent back to Earth in 50 years' time. "

" I'm not very funny at all in real life. "

" Not really a good idea to eat things fans have made because you don't know what state of mind they were in when they made them. "

" The profession is rife with fear about your age, about your validly, longevity, appearance. It's vanity, and it's hard to sort of avoid all those things; they come at you as an actor. "

" Me and Noel went to HBO once and pitched this really ludicrous idea about us driving around in a haunted car, and they just stared at us. Literally stared at us! It was awful. Luckily, we were together, so we could laugh about it, but if we were on our own, it would have been one of the worst moments ever. "

Julian Barratt

Together

Moments

" I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I'd like to be a carpenter. "

" I don't like talking about myself; I'm not good at analysing myself. I don't want to analyse myself. "

Julian Barratt

About

Want

" I don't have any friends with cool clothes. "

" Pain - that is what life is about, isn't it? Suffering with moments of reprieve. "

" I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred. "

" The acting life can be quite scary, really. "

" My life is divided up into before I had kids and after. "

Julian Barratt

Life

My Life

" Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who are not really there. "

" We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?' "

" It's strange, but something about lack of structure needs a structure itself. Otherwise, after a while, it's like looking at a Rothko painting or a Peter Greenaway film. You think, 'OK, I want to see something else now.' "

" It's a weird profession, as I don't really consider myself an actor. I did at one point, and I went and started doing auditions, and I was so useless at them and so demoralised by doing audition after audition and not getting them and also not being able to take it in my stride at all. I just felt crushed and worthless. "

" Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it. "

" I miss quite major cultural signposts quite often. "

" With something that's not based just in comedy, you can be a bit weirder in a slightly realistic way. "