Todd Solondz Quotes

It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.

Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.

Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.

How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.

Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

The thing that is incredibly helpful is that we screen the movies and we ask the audience if they like it or not and we ask a lot of questions and do testing on the movies. For comedies, at least, it's very helpful. If they're not laughing and they don't say that they loved it, then I have screwed up.

Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people won't.

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

Oh, my gosh, I've never seen a film unless, you know, if I have to go and do ADR, loop-loop. But I don't watch after. I'm too critical.

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.

I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil it for the rest of us, and we focus on them, but in the long run, all that matters are the good movies. Those are the ones that we will remember.

Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

I like people with a good sense of humor, like Jennifer Aniston. She is amazing and is a great actress.

I think some people's comedy IQ's aren't as high as other people's, so they don't really know what's going on. Or they think they know what's going on, but they don't really.

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.

It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

I don't know if you know you're funny, but you enjoy being funny. I know I'm funny because people tell me I am, but when I watch myself, it doesn't make me laugh. Does that make sense? Because I know the jokes, and to me, I feel like I'm pulling the wool over people's eyes. And there are probably people who do not enjoy what I do.

I don't have a very quick sense of humor.