Books Quote by Justin Simien

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

— Justin Simien

I've tried to stay away from mild satire. I want an audience to feel something more powerful for their ten bucks. If they're going…

— Harold Ramis

Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment. Going up with an idea and fleshing it out…

— Marc Maron

You know something like 'Patriots Day' that I did a few years ago, which is a drama, is very different than comedy. That was…

— Jimmy O. Yang

You don't service a big, fun premise comedy and then shoot yourself in the foot with too much irony. You need the audience to…

— Shawn Levy

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

— Stephen Gaghan

I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious undertones. There…

— Woody Allen

I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much…

— Jill McCorkle

Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't second-guess an…

— Catherine Tate

I want to do comedy, I want to do a negative character. I want to keep surprising the audience. I want to keep broadening…

— Arjun Mathur

Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of…

— Jim Parsons

I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy.

— Jason Gann