I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not…

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

— Lars von Trier

I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages…

— Patricia Piccinini

My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate…

— John Barrowman

I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.

— Jeffrey Brown

I never thought I'd make any money at all doing this business. Film was never even on the cards.

— Rosamund Pike

The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs.…

— Amy Madigan

Treat your career as a business. Invest your earnings into good tools that can enhance your business. Film businesses are the same as non-film…

— Elliot Grove

The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's…

— David Lynch

I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.

— Daniel Craig

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.

— Winona Ryder

It's arguable whether a hit song is gonna add to the business a film does. There are plenty of films that didn't do any…

— John Hughes

I was telling somebody just the other day, there's technically such a hierarchy in this business. You have film, that's the ideal; then you…

— Tony Hale

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

— Duane Michals

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate…

— John Oliver

I always wanted to act and I always wanted to work in comedy.

— Esther Povitsky