Comedies Quote by Jon Hurwitz

With comedy especially, it feels like such a clear-cut thing to be a writer-director. There is so much nuance and tone in a comedy…

— Todd Phillips

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

— Stephen Sondheim

In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written,…

— Viggo Mortensen

What's funny is that with my comedies I don't believe they're my best screenplays necessarily. They're just the ones that I wrote that I…

— Julie Delpy

For making a good comedy film, you need a good writer whose craft can be understood through the time that he takes to write…

— Johnny Lever

I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its purest sense.

— Makoto Shinkai

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming.

— Steve Martin

Writers are first directors. When directing our own scripts, we would have a better vision and clarity than directing the stories penned by others.…

— Anil Ravipudi

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

— Edward Norton

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

— Tom Skerritt

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it…

— Evan Daugherty