Paul Weitz Quotes on Comedy (2 Quotes)

I think that comedy can act like an anesthetic, so you can talk about relatively painful things and have it be palatable.

When you're making a comedy about really serious issues, you're kind of in the position of being an idiot savant. You're using the vocabulary of broad comedy to talk about what's most important. And I don't have a Michael Moore-like urge to offend people or get people angry at me. If anything, that idea stresses me out.