A film should be like a rock in the shoe.
If people do not laugh it's not comedy.
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.
I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.
If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.