Bobby Farrelly
Bobby Farrelly
Robert "Bobby" Farrellyis an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is one of the Farrelly Brothers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth17 June 1958
CityCumberland, RI
CountryUnited States of America
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Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.
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I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.
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Eddie? I don't even think about him anymore as a disabled guy. I just think of him as a great character and a funny guy and a good friend. That's how it was with everyone. The barriers broke down.
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If it doesn't work with an audience you have to make changes, even if it means not hanging onto the things that are your little favourites.
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Every single person involved with the production learned a lot. I'll tell you what I learned. I've been around people with mental disabilities, but I haven't been around 150 of them at a time. And there's something about it that scares people. I don't think it's just me. It might come from the idea that 'I don't want to stare at this guy,' and it gets to where you don't even acknowledge him. But by the end of the shoot, you totally forgot that a guy had disabilities.
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I think the reason why it works first of all is there's a different level of trust. And basically we both share the same vision. It's a warped vision, but we share it. And I think that we're able to protect that vision more, because the people that come at you try to get you to water down what it is that you see. And that is something that happens.
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Benicio del Toro. I think he's brilliant, and we like working with guys - or gals - who are very talented. They make us look good.
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Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.
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The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor.
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I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me.
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We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor.
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I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light.
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It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well.
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We were really serious about getting Larry David as Larry. He has the hair. But he seems to be doing just fine without us.