Character Quote by James Wolcott

A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off…

— Paul Feig

Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre…

— Haley Joel Osment

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in…

— David Lynch

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

I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be…

— Michelle Pfeiffer

Films that rely on their cast to be funny are often episodic and feel like a series of loosely connected sketches rather than a…

— Simon Pegg

It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but…

— Whit Stillman

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

— Helen Fielding

I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.

— Guy Ritchie

Comedy is more difficult. You can look at scenes when you're doing a drama like, “Maybe it works,” but in comedy, when you're doing…

— Jack Nicholson

The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.

— Jonah Hill

There is so much competition and content floating around right now, so comedy has to have a lot quirk and heart.

— Varun Sharma