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You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I just loved buddy comedies.
I think I write serious comedies. I would love to be able to write for pure pleasure, but the undertow is always loneliness.
There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.
I think that most of the best movies made in America in the 20th century were crime dramas, screwball comedies and westerns.
What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.
I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.
I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.
I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff.
I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.
I am a huge fan of the Siddique sir's Malayalam comedies. I grew up watching them. I am also his daughter's classmate in school.
Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.
When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.
I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
A lot of comedies, I think, make the wrong choice of having the straight man being this bland emotional conduit for the audience.
Comedies don't get nominated for Oscars. It doesn't happen. So when we set out to do a movie, it's not what we're thinking about.
For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.
The BBC say we need more working-class comedies, which is rubbish. We need funny comedies; it doesn't matter where they come from.
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
I'm not the girl that sits at home on a Saturday night plaiting her girlfriend's hair, drinking tea and watching romantic comedies.
A lot of series tend to go on for one series too many, especially with comedies, and I think people say 'ooh, it's gone off, that.'
As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.
So often, I think, in these relationship comedies, they don't necessarily reflect the people that I know. They don't reflect myself.
I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.
I am tired of doing stupid comedies. Though comedy has given me the breakthrough in the industry, I constantly feel the need to grow.
Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. 'M*A*S*H' is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well.
I've been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that.
If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.
I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.
I feel mindless comedies make you relax - there are times when I come from shooting and watch comedy shows; they really change my mood.
I grew up on romantic comedies and love watching those films. They were, like, a real joy and a source of great pleasure and an escape.
The great thing about 'Vera Stark' is that my research was watching movies, screwball comedies, so I could literally sit back and relax.
Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.
I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
I've always wanted to do non-comedies. I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.
I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.
I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.
My parents loved comedies, so we saw Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Ritz Brothers, and the Marx Brothers. I wanted to be one of them.
I want to get away from my comic image. Not that I won't do any more comic roles, but I won't opt for the usual 'Govinda' type of comedies.
I'd like to do 'My Best Friend's Wedding,' 'Pretty Woman,' Meg Ryan type stuff. Romantic comedies. I'd love to do some action stuff as well.
More and more, I find that I love doing comedies; that instant gratification that you get on stage when they laugh at you feels really good.
One of my favorite comedies is 'Groundhog Day' and 'Scrooged.' I love Bill Murray, and I think he's a great example of an actor who is funny.
Comedy is all about rhythm and context, and there's all types of comedies, and it's about finding that right brand, that consistency in tone.
Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.
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 real life.
The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.
I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.
Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.