I'm stopped by mothers who say, 'Mr. Wilder, what advice would you give to my young boy? He's really talented.'
What good is a character who's always winking at the audience to let them in on the secret?
I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.
I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.
So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'