There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.
Christopher WalkenI wasn't a trained actor, I was trained in musical comedy theater, and when you do that, the audience is completely part of the thing. It's like Elizabethan theater. You play the scene, and then you turn - the audience is part of it.
Christopher WalkenObvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened.
Christopher Walken