The comedy was going to come from the situation that he was in. It's okay to just be funny but a scene like that can be even funnier if there's emotion involved in the scene. Another is the scene in the restaurant when Nick Cage and Tea Leoni dance. It's really the scene that you've seen before in many movies that I tried to make unique and work on another level which I was very proud of. The pace of the movie and the cutting style really is dictated by the script and by the story I am trying tell.
People always say that video directors have a fast pace.
The truth is that my inspirations were not music videos, even though I made them, I made them like mini movies with a beginning, middle and end. Music videos for me were an education where I learnt the craft of filmmaking and storytelling. So my style necessarily is not as a typical music video director. It's more applied to what I am trying to say in the script. I had two very funny guys in it.