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...does. I get her sense of humor, I think, better than anybody else, and she gets mine better than anybody else. She is the smartest, funniest person I've ever met. I always look to her as a barometer of whether it's good...
...just kind of stood there in the background, and Adam McKay, who directed Anchorman, would instruct me to just say whatever I wanted to say, to find an opening and say something-usually a non sequitur of some sort. It could not have been more fun. To play a person who was completely disconnected with reality was just a good, fun time...
...your favorite contemporary comedians? -Pedro Serra, RIO DE JANEIROIt depends on what you define as contemporary. I am a huge fan of Alan Arkin. I think he is such a great actor and such a funny person, and so dry and so smart. In terms of people who are my age and my generation, wow, there are so many. Jim Carrey is a brilliant physical comedian and also has a great handle on more dramatic roles. I've enjoyed Ben Stiller in a ton of things. Sacha Baron Cohen, I think, is amazing, the way he disappears into the character...
With raunchy comedies becoming the latest Hollywood trend in the last couple of years, do you believe comedic cinema is regressing? -Sara Nguyen in HARRISBURG, PAI think it's all cyclical. I think things having to do with comedy just change, and it's so subjective. What makes one person laugh will definitely not make another laugh, and I don't think there's any one universally funny thing. That's why there are so many different veins of comedy. Slapstick has been around forever, gross out humor, stoner humor, drier stuff, romantic comedy, there are all sorts of different...
...case of 300, the hand audiences felt was really Miller's, since whenever Snyder made a creative decision, he asked himself, What would Frank do? Comic-book-movie directors like Snyder, who see themselves as stewards of another person's vision rather than architects of their own, have made comic-book creators Hollywood's latest big-budget auteurs. Because they work with such low overhead compared with moviemakers, comic writers and artists can take many more creative chances than directors. "You don't have endless development meetings that turn your brain into milk," says Miller. "You get to at least...