So, listen, different strokes for different folks, some people just like the joke, some people like to hear the funny line. The joke is the thing, and it works for them. Airplane!, the Zucker brothers, they perfected that art form - just an hour and a half of great, funny jokes. Fabulous! |
That was a fun scene for any number of reasons, |
The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician. |
The success of that movie, that certainly took me by surprise, ... I thought it was a little movie with a cast of unknowns, and I loved the part. |
There are no rehearsals for these movies, |
There is a similarity in the kinds of characters I gravitate to that goes back to my earliest years in the business on SCTV, ... I have more fun playing guys who are not the sharp pencils. I like the characters who are just average, if not a little below average, so the average person can look at my character on the screen and feel a little better about themselves. |
There was nothing inherently, bitingly satirical we wanted to do about the world of dog shows and dogs owners. The characters in Best in Show loved their dogs the same way real dog owners love their dogs when they put them in dog shows. We weren't sending anything up there. We were just reflecting something that was real, and we just followed our characters. |
tons of movies are shot in Toronto, but Toronto is never Toronto. |
We even reached back and sang some old westerns, |
We want these comedy situations to be grounded in a truth, |
We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out. |
You get a good creative release doing these movies with Chris, having the kind of experience of doing a movie with absolutely no interference, ... However it comes out, it's how you want it to come out. But by the same token, those aren't the movies that are necessarily paying the bills. |
You know: the well-intentioned but maybe naive nice guy who finds himself way out of his depth. So I'm this guy from the Midwest, visiting Detroit for a dental products convention, who gets caught up in a gun-running scam. |
You take more responsibility for the movie, and the movie kind of sits on your shoulders. I split that responsibility with Sam. |