Emotion will drive the machine
Bill Murray on how you get comic pitch (before touching on Ghostbusters 3, Barack Obama, Garfield, then deciding the interview is over and disappearing):
Well, obviously a lot of it is rhythm. And as often as not, it’s the surprising rhythm. In life and in movies, you can usually guess what someone is going to say — you can actually hear it — before they say it. But if you undercut that just a little, it can make you fall off your chair. It’s small and simple like that. You’re always trying to get your distractions out of the way and be as calm as you can be [breathes in and out slowly], and emotion will just drive the machine. It will go through the machine without being interrupted, and it comes out in a rhythm that’s naturally funny. And that funny rhythm is either humorous or touching. It can be either one. But it’s always a surprise. I really don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth.
As Robin points out over at Snarkmarket, the entire interview should almost not be excerpted; it’s too much fun. Go read it in one fell swoop.
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