Kind Of The Exhausting Thing About Doing Pure Comedy, Or Something That's Broader, Is You're Kind Of A Slave To The Laugh. If It's Not Funny, Then There's Not Much Point In Doing It. The Kind Of über-objective Is To Make People Laugh. You Always Have To Have That In The Back Of Your Mind, "eh, I've Got To Figure Out A Way To Make This Funny."

-John C. Reilly

Please Wait....
Translating....

Kind Of The Exhausting Thing About Doing

John C. Reilly

Kind Of The Exhausting Thing About Doing Pure Comedy, Or Something That's Broader, Is You're Kind Of A Slave To The Laugh. If It's Not Funny, Then There's Not Much Point In Doing It. The Kind Of über-objective Is To Make People Laugh. You Always Have To Have That In The Back Of Your Mind, "eh, I've Got To Figure Out A Way To Make This Funny."

Topic

People

Laughing

Mind

The Truth Is That Filmmaking Is Not Really An Actor's Medium; It's Really A Director's Medium, So All I Can Really Control Is The Character That I'm Playing. So I Try To Look For Characters That Are Interesting And Engaging And Different Than What I've Done Before And Hopefully It Becomes A Good Movie.

Character

Interesting

Good Movie