Audience Quote by Michael Moore

I don't force humor into a film, it comes naturally to me.

— Priyadarshan

By employing a certain sense of humor, you essentially get more serious about things and show conflict more effectively than if you were overly…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

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

I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.

— Maria Thayer

As somebody who works in comedy, I gravitate to the very serious, dramatic things in my consumption of media.

— Lauren Ash

The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people…

— Abe Burrows

I believe comedy is a really good lens to filter serious issues through. If people are laughing, they don't necessarily realize until they stop…

— Kenya Barris

For me, it's important to elevate the hypocrisy with humor. Then you really are using the humor to elevate the problem, saying this is…

— Lizz Winstead

Comedy is able to point out things in ways that more serious people cannot.

— Randy Rainbow

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more…

— William Collins

I watch mostly documentaries and things that aren't remotely funny.

— Christopher Guest

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