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… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
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… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
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… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a question that… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
One weekend, I was driving and in the car next to me on the freeway was a guy who looked like a very conservative… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
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… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
Everybody always asks me what the big surprises were that I discovered about Woody and I never have a good stock answer for that,… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
If you listen to Howard Stern, go back and listen to Lenny Bruce, so you can hear what real talent is. — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
Writing, to me, conjures up a physical act, like running or eating. — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
On 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' I remember that sometime in Season 3, there was a Yiddish phrase, 'Kinahura,' and a friend of mine who was… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
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… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
How do you tell a story that you're a part of without it being a big ego trip? — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
For me, it was never a choice not to play the game because I was never attracted to it in the first place. I… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
