A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.
You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.
I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.
I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.
Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometimes it really flows.
I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.
Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.
I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.
When someone's an actor and you're an actor, you meet them and you feel like you know them. We're in the same business, and we all speak the same comedy language.
The times change, and to the extent that comedy captures the spirit of the times, it will enjoy success.
I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.
You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.
I met someone who said they'd figured out my genre: "madcap redemption comedy." I'll buy that.
Most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.
I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.
I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.
I had wanted to do a comedy.
To see a comedy in an environment where you're surrounded by other people that are laughing is great. That's probably more satisfying than just watching it by yourself.
I like really stupid comedies.
What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.
I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film I can't sit still.
I am a big comedy fan, having been in 'Coupling.'
Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.
Nothing can help my comedy.
People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.
