Ice Cube Quotes

Honestly, I just like to make movies. The funnier the better.

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

I wanted to do a comedy. I'd been actively looking for a comedy. I wanted to do one that was different. Nothing against them, but I wasn't interested in just your normal sitcom, boy meets girl.

The films I'm planning and doing are a mix of different things, but it doesn't mean that I'm going to stop doing comedy. That's something I love doing and I can't take that for granted.

I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

Being able to make a comedy at Disney was really appealing.

The best comedies are the ones where the person who's in charge is the one with the vision who's said, 'I'm staying with this till the very end.'

When Broken Lizard writes a movie, we reject everything that doesn't have five guys as leads, so it needs to be cops or a basketball team; that's what we can do.

Miranda's my character; I created her! But there's a lot of comedy I want to bring to the world that isn't just Miranda.

I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.

One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.

I'd love to do comedy. I'd probably have to get my laughing fits in check, because generally if I've done comedy, I'm usually the straight character that plays against the very obviously funny character, so that's really hard when the person is really hilarious.

If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It's just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment.

I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.

I'd like to keep exploring comedy. I didn't necessarily think of myself as a comedic actress, but it's a lot of fun.

I do love comedy, but I'm not brave enough to tackle a script whose goal is to make you laugh. That's tough. The ones that can do it, I tip my hat off to them, but I don't have that kind of humor or mind.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

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