Believer Quote by Dan Mazer Download Open image “In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.” — Dan Mazer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Believer Comedy Humor Term Truth
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable. — Paul Lynde Copy Share Image
With all comedy, you try to ground it in credibility and reality. — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. — Sid Caesar Copy Share Image
When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters. — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all -… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
You can't deny the truth. And that's what makes smart comedy so good. — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with. — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
It is true that comedy might not be realistic all the time, but I enjoy doing it. — Sanjay Mishra Copy Share Image
I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in… — Eugene Levy Copy Share Image
I like to foster an atmosphere on set of collaboration and openness and risk taking. The beauty is when you have such brilliantly talented… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound arrogant and say that I know everything about directing and I've got it cracked, but it was just all… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
I've been on lots of film sets. I've produced films and written films and been around, so it wasn't my first rodeo in terms… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
It's incredibly easy as a director to be egotistical. Of course, it is because you have 200 people on set every day listening to… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
My casting process was slightly different and slightly interesting insofar as I knew everybody could act. That's something you've seen. You know people can.… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
So, as opposed to getting people in to read the script and read scenes with me, what I wanted to do was sit down… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
I think improvisation is really crucial in terms of making things feel real and authentic. — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging. — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's tough to make funny films. And the truth is, with this process, especially if you write your own movie, then you're giving three… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
To me, there was an interesting movie to be made about two people who had been on that whirlwind romance and what happens after… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
I know what I want. I try and convey that at the beginning and set that out, but within those parameters, I'm very happy… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
God has given believers the responsibility of spreading the Gospel to all the world, and we need to use all at our disposal to… — Theodore Epp Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm a great believer in the power of the pause. Radio is a bit brasher now. My style was slower. I just used… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers. — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Revival is the Spirit's passion within the believer to know and to obey the total will of God. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all! — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Intuitionists think that there are cases in which, say, some identity statement between real numbers is neither true nor false, even though we know… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in. — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image