Comedy Quote by Buster Keaton

In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people…

— Christopher Guest

People don't understand how much time and work it takes to make somebody laugh, and how hard it is to write a script, to…

— Marlon Wayans

My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the…

— Steven Weber

There is a tendency for writers to be most exciting by whatever they just wrote. Sometimes that excitement is warranted. Sometimes on further listen…

— Stone Gossard

It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without…

— Michel Hazanavicius

And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big…

— Arundhati Roy

We seem to spend a lot of our time in very small spaces spouting a lot of dialogue very quickly.

— David Tennant

If something is being written about a lot, there's a conversation there; there's a dialogue there. There's probably a reason for it that it…

— Jesse Andrews

Sometimes a scene can elude you, and then, you also learn that the small moments are really what you're after. A big broad moment…

— Nicholas Stoller

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story…

— Alfred Hitchcock

You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than your words.

— Jeremy Brett

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in…

— Donna Mills