I'm not trying to make everything this fantasy world about how I'm living this lavish life that I'm not really living.
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
The impact of T.V. on our lives in general gets most things out of proportion.
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus.
With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.
Exaggeration is my only reality.
Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.
When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.
