"A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done."

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Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2011.

Richard Ayoade

#Stupid Quotes #Men Quotes #Funny Things Quotes

“The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .”
“A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. The spacecraft carries our secret hope that there is something better out there-a world where we may someday go and leave the sorrows of the past behind. The spacecraft rises toward the heavens exactly as, in our finest moments as a nation, our hearts have risen toward justice and principle.”
“I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.”
“Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.”
“Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.”
“Turns out he does run," Nick drawled. "Given an incentive. And he wouldn't be so out of breath if he hadn't kept shrieking." "That was not a shriek," Jamie said with dignity. "It was a husky masculine cry of terror.”
“Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.”
“Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.”

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