Behinds Quote by Will Packer

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

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

In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to…

— Stephen Root

Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule…

— Ari Graynor

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

— Jon Lovitz

Whatever makes you laugh is fine, and all we can do as comedy professionals is try to steer you towards something that we think…

— Paul Feig

The secret of comedy is enjoying it. If you're not laughing, it's not going to be funny.

— Sarah Alexander

I maintain that no movie can be funny enough. I mean even the most serious, even the most intense movie and I know enough…

— Edward Zwick

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

— Priyadarshan

I never shoot for a film telling myself that I have to make people laugh. I can't even do stand-up comedy.

— Rajpal Yadav

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

A lot of comedy films, there's the opinion, 'Well, if it's funny, put it in.' But I think you have to be more disciplined…

— Jay Chandrasekhar