You have to know you are in a comedy. You have to know…

I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It…

— Peter Billingsley

In all honesty, we don't know what's in the hearts of other men. All I know is that I respect comedy and I know…

— Carlos Mencia

“I think a character in a comedy should not know they're in a comedy.”

— Steve Carell

I know comedy; I know how to do crazy, off-the-wall stuff that makes me laugh out loud.

— Jonathan Krisel

I believe in allowing an audience the opportunity to make up their own mind.

— Rupert Friend

I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you…

— Ian McLeod

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

— Peter Hedges

There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows, I think, the audience to participate more actively and kind of imagine what…

— Pete Docter

You can't write a thing that is hermetically sealed; there has to be a way for the audience to get in and participate. I…

— Naomi Alderman

Film has become a very passive experience, but with theatre, there is a contract made with the audience, where they participate. That's why my…

— Joe Wright

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no…

— Steve Martin

My parents passed away when I was a teenager, so I had to learn different survival techniques, I think, in comedy. You know, using…

— Jeff Ross

I certainly know guys in comedy, I know some actors, and I definitely know some musicians, who have survived to a certain age and…

— Denis Leary

I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know…

— Steve Martin

You can't cheat comedy. You know, it either is going to be there on the day you capture or it's not.

— Justin Lin