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I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
- Jay Roach
#Control
#I Am
#Laugh
#Love
#Me
I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.
- Jay Roach
#Experience
#Great
#Hear
#Talk
#Watching
I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population.
- Jay Roach
#Better
#Getting Better
#Hope
#Quality
But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing.
- Jay Roach
#Always
#Go
#Know
#Rights
#Will
Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.
- Jay Roach
#Find
#Joy
#Laughter
#Next
#Struggle
On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.
- Jay Roach
#Go
#Hope
#More
#Talk
#Worth
As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has.
- Jay Roach
#Direction
#Keep Going
#Long
#Parents
The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of - knowing that they'll make it on the DVD.
- Jay Roach
#Difficult
#Knowing
#Make
#Myself
#Things
I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production.
- Jay Roach
#Film
#Hard
#Momentum
#Picture
#Will
We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything.
- Jay Roach
#Every Step
#Everything
#People
#Step
But I couldn't cut that whole septic tank scene out because the audience liked it so much. So I sort of fell right back into getting a cheap laugh, but I still loved it.
- Jay Roach
#Back
#Cheap
#Laugh
#Loved
#Right
The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.
- Jay Roach
#Audience
#Better
#Success
#Surprise
#Us
I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.
- Jay Roach
#Anything
#Dramatic
#Possible
#Things
My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.
- Jay Roach
#Amazing
#Comedy
#Criticism
#Film
#Happen
I do love DVD and I've always taken them seriously. You know, on the Austin things, we really put a ton of work into them because there's so much design involved. And in this one, we thought a lot about it and what could go in.
- Jay Roach
#Design
#Know
#Love
#Seriously
#Work
My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.
- Jay Roach
#Design
#Film
#Style
#Together
#Way
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