If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.
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People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.
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I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
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What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.
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