Ivan Reitman Quotes

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

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.

Comedy, unlike drama, demands surprise. You can't quietly and thoughtfully enjoy a comedy.

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

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

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.

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.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

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

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

I think jokes can actually go to places that drama can't.

Comedy is all about the pause.

Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

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.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

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