Nicholas Stoller Quotes

I want to do a full on comedy, like Rohit Shetty's 'Golmaal' series.

I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with Steve Carell. I've wanted to work with him since I met him years ago as a kid.

I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.

'Yamla Pagla Deewana' is not slapstick but a situation based comedy.

I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.

I'd like to do a romantic comedy like 'Notting Hill,' which is one of my favorite movies.

I've always wanted to do a romantic comedy.

We made 'Housefull 4' because 1, 2 and 3 were loved by the audience.

Believe me, sequels are just as hard to make as original films.

I make dramedies, but 'Tangerine' really has a lot of comedy, and I saw that it had a great effect - it reached a larger audience.

For 'Dora,' I wasn't sure I wanted to do it. I wanted to go on a serious path. Then I read the script. It's really funny and action-packed. It's almost like a 'Jumanji'-type movie.

There is some humor in Monsieur Lazhar and in all my other films, but this one I'll try to make a real comedy from start to finish. It's called Prescott Etc. because the name of the constituency is so long that everybody in the constituency just says Prescott Etc. I don't know if that's what it will be. It's a working title.

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy. Of course, nobody loves bad comedy, but there's a lot of bad comedy out there.

The broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film.

You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.

I'd love to do a comedy. I'd love to do a two-hander like the old Leathal Weapon movies. I love those, like an action comedy with the straight man and the funny man. I'd love to do one of those. Just got to find one, find a funny man that wants to do one with me.

It's tough to make a sequel that stands up to the original especially one that has, over the course of time, become a bit of a cult favorite.

Comedies are very hard to do. They are difficult. Unless there's the Judd Apatow school, where they're like okay, we know that, we're going to do those. Or unless it's something that's far to the other side.

With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast.

It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.

I really wanted to do a comedy. I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one. I tried with two little parts in comedies that were more mainstream, I was kind of fumbling around, and then I read The Brothers Bloom and knew it was the one I wanted to jump into. Did it take adjusting? Actually, it's not really any different from doing drama.

Every sequel needs to be bigger and better.

There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors that you carry with you.

I don't think there's that many great 90-minute comedies.