Comedy Quote by Todd Phillips

With comedy especially, it feels like such a clear-cut thing to be a writer-director. There is so much nuance and tone in a comedy…

— Todd Phillips

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a…

— Laura Linney

I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you cannot keep…

— Melissa McCarthy

I think comedy is a genre that has a lot of potential. It is a very content-driven film genre.

— Kartik Aaryan

Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic…

— Dagur Kari

A lot of things matter in comedy - the script, the lines, your timing, the co-actor's timing, how it's shot.

— Jitendra Kumar

The timing of comedy is so difficult. You've got to leave room for a laugh, you don't want to kill the laugh, but on…

— Helen Mirren

To me, real comedy comes out of behavior. It's the choices you make as an actor. It's never about, "I want to do a…

— Robert Duvall

I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're…

— Antonio Banderas

A lot of the time, a comedy script is just dialogue, and that's the main thing you have to worry about.

— Paul Rust

It's an ongoing process, in the script, on the set and in the editing room, to make sure you are being true to the…

— Jon Turteltaub

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.

— Bo Burnham