David Chase Quotes

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

I don't write punch lines.

Using humor as a wedge into different kinds of stories is my go-to. I think anything I do would have some sort of streak of humor in it.

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.

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

There's always a message in my comedy.

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.

Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

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.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.

I prefer situational or character-based humor to gross-out gags and comedic set pieces.

Comedy can take you a lot further in getting your point across. People are entertained, and then, by being entertained, they get your point.

I've always been a huge fan of Tina Fey's. She's a very unique storyteller and has such a great voice and sense of character and comedy, and manages to do things that are oftentimes very broad but still have a lot of heart to them.

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

It's a fine line between hack and good comedy.

I call it predicament humor. You don't do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

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

Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

It's very hard to write humor.