Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If its a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. – Neil Gaiman
Theres a darkness under The Hangover because ultimately theres a missing person and its not really that funny. Theres a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in Old School. – Todd Phillips
Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, theyre on the positive side of things. Its not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies. – Feist
