Big Quote by Akshaye Khanna

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

— Ang Lee

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

— Sophie Marceau

Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully…

— Alexander Payne

To me, comedies are usually the least funny movies. Movies that are actually a comedy are usually not all that funny. To me Goodfellas…

— Louis C. K

For Keeping the Faith, I looked at [George ] Cukor's old films like The Philadelphia Story, stuff that's hilariously funny and really smart with…

— Edward Norton

A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of…

— Ty Burrell

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

— Paul Lieberstein

Comedy always works better when you're tracking the story and you care about the characters. That's why there's a lot of movies where there's…

— Andy Samberg

And then, movie-wise, I'm writing a couple of things. They're all comedies. It's the only way I know. I'm also being sent scripts, which…

— Dan Mazer

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

— Tom Hiddleston

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but…

— Alice Lowe

My favorite kinds of comedies are ones that hopefully make you laugh a lot, but ultimately make you care about something in the end,…

— Jason H. Moore