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Comedy is all about the joke. Comedies usually don't do anything fancy with the camera [or] the lighting. It doesn't matter. It should never…

— Fede Alvarez

A lot of things matter in comedy - the script, the lines, your timing, the co-actor's timing, how it's shot.

— Jitendra Kumar

Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying…

— Luke Wilson

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously…

— Stephen Fry

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

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and…

— Jack Dee

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

In comedy you have to be prepared and be specific and have a vision so your comedy feels organic and relatable and it's a…

— Sal Vulcano

If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.

— Garry Marshall

When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits…

— John Cleese

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no…

— Steve Martin

It is hard to keep a straight face during comedy scenes. It's considered really bad form to laugh at someone else because you can…

— Ben Miller