Away Quote by Camille Perri

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.

— Rick Famuyiwa

You can say things in a comedy that you never can say in a drama.

— John Forsythe

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine…

— James Thurber

Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

— Mason Cooley

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next…

— David Alan Basche

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

— Rob Lowe

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

— Robert Orben

It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.

— Christopher Guest

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

— Tommy Wiseau

I really think that you can extract a lot of comedy out of really dramatic, intense situations.

— Jason Gann

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.

— Chris O'Dowd

You can't have good comedy without drama in it.

— Sandra Bullock