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Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully…

— Alexander Payne

If you don't have comedy in a movie, you don't have a movie.

— Theodore Melfi

The biggest difference between the two is how intimate the theatre is. Film is so different because, when youre on set, even if a…

— Renee Rapp

The greatest way for people to experience a comedy is to go in not knowing anything about it. But because of marketing, it's impossible.…

— Paul Feig

It's easier to do comedy with an audience, because their reactions tell you whether or not what your saying qualifies as comedy.

— Doug Benson

Comedy is more difficult. You can look at scenes when you're doing a drama like, “Maybe it works,” but in comedy, when you're doing…

— Jack Nicholson

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

Comedy can be more difficult than drama. It requires more attention to timing. In the theater, you're always dependent on the audience for the…

— David Alan Basche

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may…

— Theodore Bikel

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

— John Hodgman

Firstly, I am not a comedian. I have a sense of doing comedy but I am a character artist. If the character in the…

— Ashok Saraf

I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy film. I…

— Emraan Hashmi