Chris O'Dowd Quotes

There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

It's very hard to write humor.

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

I don't write punch lines.

Comedy is easy. You have to react to what others are saying and it is all about the timing, the dialogue delivery.

I'm not into comedies that are joke-driven.

I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

There's always a message in my comedy.