I'm an aetheist. I can't answer that question, because there's a lot of films that vie for that privelege, but I can list a few of them. Mike, many of your films are very funny but also extremely dark. I don't decide. I try and make films that are as real as possible, I try to create a reality, like the reality we experience in life.
Life is comic and tragic.
So the material I create in the films is both comic and tragic. It comes that way, it's hewn from the theme. Of course I do use comic skills and tragic skills as a filmmaker and dramatist. But I don't make a conscious decision as to when it should be comic and tragic. And so I wanted for years to make a film which explored this predicament in a fictitious way.