A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard.

Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.

When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.

Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun."

No one wakes up and says, "Yay I get to mow the lawn!" But if I can find meaning there, then there's nowhere I can't find meaning.

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.