Always Quote by Jonah Hill

If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.

— John Waters

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

It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

— Jonah Hill

If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do; try to be shocking and dirty.…

— John Waters

I do feel like in filmmaking you are largely in control of the perception of you. If you want to be seen as the…

— Leigh Whannell

I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.

— Sam Kinison

When you finish some film and you let it out there, it is completely out of your control. You've done what you've done, you…

— Jennifer Lynch

There's nothing more dramatic than the comedy I've done. Because the comedy I've done is to get to the audience, get them to feel…

— Jerry Lewis

I know, when I was in film school, some of my films were silly, but a lot of them were more dramatic. I don't…

— Jeff Baena

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

— Jonathan Krisel

I don't think any comedy is ever shocking. I don't buy that. That's just what people brand it, when someone is saying something they…

— Jim Norton

I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or…

— Parker Posey