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Into a horrifyingly real subject. heres a clip. when i was a child and there were many serious things going on, such as the great depression and all that, it was laurel and hardy who gave me permission not to take life seriously. and it turned out that it was ok to laugh your head off. he laughs life was a very serious business and it - inspired me to try and write funny books, that this was a good thing to do with a life is to be funny. now, what i liked about this is this documentary has inter...

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I think youre the greatest thing on earth! yes, theres a lot of them! there are a lot of them. so i really enjoyed this. your own feeling about it? i thought it was fascinating, and the documentary side of it i loved. i mean, the wealth of material is fantastic, notjust of him, all the family archive, even voice recordings of his messages that hes left on answering machines — remember those? i mean, all of that is so rich and wonderful and i learned masses and i thought it was fascinating. the...

You know, i confess i couldnt get to the end of it because it was too creepy for me. yeah. but i thought... i was very impressed with what i was able to watch and thought, wow, this is a first—time filmmaker, thats impressive. you feel like youre in that landscape, dont you? yes, completely, and i loved that about it. i thought that was very clever. those scenes when she goes out into the woods and the camera follows her out and you get the sense of the past and the present all intertwining, i...

When i was a child, and there were many serious things going on, such as the great depression and all that, it was laurel and hardy who gave me permission not to take life seriously. and it turned out that it was ok to laugh your head off. he laughs. life was a very serious business and it inspired me to try and write funny books — that this was a good thing to do with a life, is to be funny. now, what i liked about this is this documentary has interviews taken over a long period of time — c...

That the film deals with about how his life was changed by suddenly people going, "0h, mr vonnegut, i think youre the greatest thing on earth!" theres a lot of them. there are a lot of them. so i really enjoyed this. your own feeling about it? i thought it was fascinating. and the documentary side of it, i loved. i mean, the wealth of material is fantastic, notjust of him, all the family archive, even voice recordings of his messages that hes left on answering machines. remember those? i mean, a...

Of it because it was too creepy for me. yeah. but i thought... i was very impressed with what i was able to watch and thought, "wow, this is a "first—time film—maker? "thats impressive." you feel like youre in that landscape, dont you? yes, completely, and i loved that about it. i thought that was very clever. those scenes when she goes out into the woods and the camera follows her out and you get the sense of the past and the present all intertwining, i thought was... yeah, but then when yo...

When Robert Weide read Kurt Vonnegut as a teenager, he never dreamed he would one day make a film about the author – or become a longstanding friend

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Robert Weide was 23 when he first approached his literary hero about making a documentary and went on to develop a remarkable friendship.