David Dobkin Quotes

#1. I believe comedy should be free to go anywhere. I believe that there is tasteful and untasteful, I think they're very close to each other, and it's how you handle it tonally. But I'm an equal opportunity offender.

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#2. On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.

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#3. I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.

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#4. Art is the only thing that can save me from my opinions about the world. I tend to get very worked up about what I see going on, and I feel, you know, impotent to make the kind of changes and the kind of difference that I would like to make.

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#5. Laughter is really a gift. It's the most vulnerable state you can be in.

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#6. I'm very comfortable with an R-rating. I feel like it sounds like what people talk like in real life; I think it's more real to me.

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#7. Comedy, when it works, is light on its feet and has the illusion of complete spontaneity: as if there is no film, no camera. You are standing there experiencing it all in real time. This illusion, I believe, is why so many people think comedy is easy.

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#8. I honestly never thought in my career I was going to do a body-switching movie.

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#9. I do believe in God. I don't believe in God as a person, but I believe in God as a state of energy and consciousness that we all share.

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#10. I watch comedy on TV, and it's too cutty for me. I get a little jarred, and it succeeds. It's not like it's not working, and I look at certain things, and it has the cutting ... it's not like I'd make terribly different cuts, but for some reason, it moves too fast for me.

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#11. I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will stop reading because it's just too much of a time commitment. But you never know with a movie what's going to turn around.

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