Attention Quote by Jay Chandrasekhar

If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with…

— Christopher Guest

It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the…

— Steven Wright

You don't see a wonderful shot in a comedy. Why? Because they don't want to distract you from what matters, which is the joke.…

— Fede Alvarez

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of…

— James Burrows

I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it…

— T.I

As an actor, you can really play the intensity and gravity and seriousness of the moment, and just rely on the circumstances being funny.…

— Ed Helms

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

— John Waters

The timing of comedy is so difficult. You've got to leave room for a laugh, you don't want to kill the laugh, but on…

— Helen Mirren

Often when you're filming comedy and you've done six or seven takes, the joke's been done and you know you're gonna have to say…

— Jim Howick

Funny stories on set - there are thousands of them, but they are only funny to the people who were on the movies. You…

— Bruce Campbell

Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill…

— David Lynch

You can't wait forever for an audience to get the joke, but you should give them at least two seconds to join in before…

— Franklyn Ajaye