Cinema Quote by Robert Downey, Jr

I've always wanted to make serious films. Comedy's important, it's very good to laugh. But when I look back at all my favourite films,…

— Omid Djalili

I really think that you can extract a lot of comedy out of really dramatic, intense situations.

— Jason Gann

It doesn't matter if it's a drama or a comedy, the need to get the emotion and the character arc across is way harder…

— Colin Farrell

A serious film should have lots of humour.

— Samuthirakani

As everyone knows, comedy is the toughest emotion to handle. Everything about it is difficult - writing, directing and acting.

— Vivek

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

All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're dealing with…

— Chukwudi Iwuji

To call them emotional comedies sounds cloying. Like Billy Wilder said, 'You want to make them laugh and you want to make them cry,'…

— Charles Shyer

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

— Helen Fielding

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

— Ellen Page

Comedy always works better when you're tracking the story and you care about the characters. That's why there's a lot of movies where there's…

— Andy Samberg

Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.

— Noah Emmerich