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...HOFFMAN: Well, maybe. I think we're all working off ourselves in this movie to some degree. Bob is a very shy, reticent, understated person, and he's parodying a central quality about himself. And I think everybody's kind of doing that...
...HOFFMAN: I loved the scene in this of Ben getting electrocuted. I saw him shooting it that day, and I went up to him and said, "That's Keaton. That's as good as Keaton...
...HOFFMAN: You know, something can be funny while you do it, and then you go to rushes [the unedited reels of film that were shot that day], and it's still amusing, but when they cut the movie together, it doesn't work. Because the beats of comedy are in the cutting. If a director doesn't know what he's doing, a laugh can disappear. Most of the time, the laugh in a film is the reaction someone gives to the supposedly funny moment...
...HOFFMAN: You never know a movie's going to work. You only know if there's something wrong. I'm not just talking comedy. Any kind of movie. Usually when there's something wrong, the director feels that it is working and is very happy and very satisfied, and you know it's not. And you know before the first week is over...
...HOFFMAN: You go to the producer. Always to the producer...