For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.
A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.
There was a whole slew of 'Cops and Robbersons,' just films that didn't measure up, that didn't stand for anything comedically. They were purely for a paycheck.
You don't want to watch a film for two hours that depresses you or makes you think so much it evokes a negative reaction.
Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.
Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.
The worst thing ever for me is go see a movie, and the next day I go, 'What did I do last night? I have no memory of this $300 million movie I watched because I felt nothing.'
With a gimmick, there isn't much substance. If you play to the crowd too much, it can go bad.
I hate those vacuous musicals, the happy-happy, 'Let's have a good time' shows.
