I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – one can believe in Woody Allen’s innocence without presuming Dylan Farrow to be a liar. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
My paid gigs allow me to pay for my documentaries, like a drug habit, I suppose. If I’m lucky enough to be working steady, however, it leaves little time for the documentary hobby. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
Kurt Vonnegut and I – it’s not an exaggeration to say we were best friends. And I grew up just idolizing him. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
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. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
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. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
I feel like a lot of the guys who are trying to do political or socially relevant humor just haven’t figured out who the enemy is. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
I don’t know that Michael J Fox had done anything prior to that ‘Curb’ episode where he got to comically play up the whole subject of his Parkinson’s. There must have been something very liberating in doing that. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
In any movie, there are a number of scenes that get cut in an effort to keep the film from running too long. Some are of little consequence, but others are important scenes that are very painful to lose. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
It’s not writing in the traditional sense, but I’ve always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing room. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
People in the States live for finding something they can lose their minds over. They have nothing else going on. They watch a show and there’s a joke and everybody’s up in arms. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
