Audience Quote by Fede Alvarez

Only comedies can get you that engaged in a movie, dramas people just sort of sit there and eat their popcorn and nothing really…

— Bruce Campbell

With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The…

— Maggie Carey

Horror movies feel like comedies when you're making them because everybody laughs so much.

— Mike Flanagan

I love watching audiences scream. I imagine it's the same joy that a director feels who has made a comedy when he or she…

— Leigh Whannell

You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release…

— Gary Sherman

People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs…

— John Lithgow

In some ways, the audience becomes complacent when they go to a horror film. And so it's fun to take that attitude and then…

— Ari Aster

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

— Jonathan Krisel

There are only a few genres, horror and comedy, where you can get that immediate feedback from the audience. It's very gratifying when that's…

— Adam Wingard

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

— Neve Campbell

If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it.…

— Warwick Davis

I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if…

— Jason Reitman