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Somehow I got a hold of an address for Vonnegut shortly after making the Marx Brothers film. Vonnegut wrote back, saying that he had seen the Marx brothers film and loved it. That became the foundation of our friendship: old movies and comedies.

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It took me little more than two years to complete my film, ‘Woody Allen: A Documentary.’ I conducted hours of filmed interviews with Woody, who put forward no ground rules about questions I could ask, or topics to avoid.

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If you’re watching comedy movies, go back and check out the Marx Brothers in ‘Duck Soup,’ or Buster Keaton in ‘The General,’ or Laurel and Hardy or W.C. Fields or whatever – and see what pure talent really was, so that you can see where it came from, and then you can sort of gauge it from there.

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May 26, 2024

If you’re watching comedy movies, go back and check out the Marx Brothers in ‘Duck Soup,’ or Buster Keaton in ‘The General,’ or Laurel and Hardy or W.C. Fields or whatever – and see what pure talent really was, so that you can see where it came from, and then you can sort of gauge it from there.

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May 26, 2024

It took me little more than two years to complete my film, ‘Woody Allen: A Documentary.’ I conducted hours of filmed interviews with Woody, who put forward no ground rules about questions I could ask, or topics to avoid.

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