It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.
When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.
The woman is skin covered prozac I like to call her. Half the trick to a film like this is keeping a sort of emotional level going and keeping an attitude that induces creativity on the set. You have to be in a good mood for that. You have to be happy to make a comedy I think and Anne sort of ensured that every time by expressing most of her feelings through the exciting medium of dance.
Yeah when you're in the middle of filming this movie [Bad Santa 2] it doesn't matter what you say you can think of some sort of way to twist it into something dirty so we were laughing a lot.
I love making comedy. I never stopped loving it. I will continue to love it and I can't believe that I get to do it.
It's a very collaborative environment [making The Office]. We always do takes of how it's scripted, but then we also mix it up a lot too. And it's kind of a crapshoot, you never know which one... I mean a lot of time improvisation doesn't go anywhere and it's not good at all but, so what was written is often times better.
I really love making people laugh.
Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. So I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.
Coming up with comedy is hard, man. Those bits aren't easy to think of!
I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.
Honestly, I just like to make movies. The funnier the better.
Actually the hardest films to make are comedies. In normal life, funny things happen by accident; to re-create those by design in a film takes real technique.
Making people laugh is what I really enjoy.
I love being able to make people laugh.
With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast.
When we make a comedy film, its important to have a light atmosphere on the sets so that the mood reflects in the film.
The joys of making a comedy are that it feels very playful and silly, and the energy is totally different because they want you to feel free enough to come out with something a bit mad.
I'm often asked for advice on how to go about making comedy shows like the begrudgingly accepted 'IT Crowd'.
When you make comedy, you make it for the people and you try to have as many screenings and as many tests and you do focus groups and you read the cards and you try to give the people what they want in this comedy.
The days are long. I'm not complaining, but it's a lot of work doing a single-camera comedy.
There are two types of actors. There's the actors who can acknowledge that they could never do standup comedy. Then there's the pretentious ones, who believe that acting is harder than standup comedy. I definitely don't think it is. I also think making a comedy is substantially harder than making a drama.
Feeling supported when you are doing comedy is the best way to make comedy - at least, that's how I think.
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.'
I think there's a difference between making comedy and reporting comedy. When you're a joke teller you can easily fall into the second, you can show up and just say the jokes.
