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Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.
Norman Wisdom
Most
Budgets
Comedies
Were
American
Low
Certainly
Standards
For me, I went to NYU, and at that point, it was 1995, and everyone wanted to be Tarantino. I was writing these stupid comedies, and I felt lost.
Adam F. Goldberg
Me
Writing
Stupid
Lost
Everyone
Point
Comedies
Felt
Tarantino
Wanted
NYU
If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
Adam McKay
You
Comedies
Making
Rhythm
Them
Fun
I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
Adam Shankman
School
Made
Past
Different Kinds
Drama
Musicals
Kinds
Feel
Like
Comedies
Couple
Making
Lot
Bunch
Going
Different
Movies
Film
Film School
Career
Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. 'M*A*S*H' is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well.
Alan Alda
Comedy
Few
Other
Dramatic
Only
Comedies
Well
Comedy Shows
Influence
Influenced
Shows
I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.
Alan Cumming
Way
More
Like
Comedies
Because
Tragedies
Than
Universal
You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
Albert Brooks
You
Director
Writing
Correctly
Out
Find
Deliver
Know
Comedies
Became
Anybody
Necessity
I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.
Alice Eve
Love
Wish
High
High Heels
Comedies
Odd
Mixture
Being
Romantic
Romantic Comedies
Heels
Them
Serious
Watching
Pretty people don't keep comedies on the air. Funny people keep comedies on the air.
Allison Jones
Funny
People
Funny People
Air
Pretty
Comedies
Keep
I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the relations between men and women were at their civilized height in terms of banter and exchange of wit and equality.
Allison Pearson
Women
Equality
Men
Men And Women
Think
Relations
Civilized
Hawks
Exchange
Between
Wit
Terms
Comedies
Am
Passionate
Were
Where
Height
I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.
Amy Adams
Funny
Great
People
Comedy
Think
Funny People
Kick
Out
Jobs
Find
Most
Comedies
Doing
Get
Just
Which
Them
Really
Works
Film
The reality of our lives is never like what you see in those romantic comedies or dramas. Things don't always end good. Things don't usually end good.
Andrew Haigh
Good
You
Reality
Good Things
Dramas
Our
Our Lives
Those
See
Never
Like
Comedies
Always
End
Romantic
Romantic Comedies
Lives
Things
I feel mindless comedies make you relax - there are times when I come from shooting and watch comedy shows; they really change my mood.
Anita Hassanandani Reddy
You
Change
Comedy
Relax
Mindless
Mood
Feel
Come
Comedies
Comedy Shows
Make
Times
Shooting
Really
Shows
Watch
I used to sort of consider myself a feminist, an environmentalist, and I still have some of that in me, but I've done so many offensive comedies, I'm now worn down to a little nub of... nub of an activist.
Anna Faris
Myself
Me
Down
Consider
Worn
Some
Environmentalist
Comedies
Sort
Still
Feminist
Offensive
Done
Little
Used
Many
Activist
Now
I guess my silly dream is to be on 'Game of Thrones.' I don't think that I can do that, but that's my silly dream. And there are a lot of American comedies, particularly on NBC, that I would, I would love to do.
Anna Kendrick
Love
Game
Think
Guess
Dream
Would
Silly
Particularly
Comedies
Lot
American
Game Of Thrones
NBC
I don't get offered many comedies.
Anna Maxwell Martin
Comedies
Offered
Get
Many
I don't have anything saying, 'I'm going to do this many new films, and this many comedies.' But, it's always exciting for me, whenever it is a new character and something I haven't done before, and that's part of what draws me to it.
Ashley Greene
Saying
Character
Me
Before
Films
Draws
Something
Part
Exciting
New
Comedies
Always
Done
Going
Whenever
Anything
Many
I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.
Ben Stiller
Work
Creative
Enjoy
Valid
Ability
Comedies
Test
Your
Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.
Ben Stiller
Sometimes
Opportunity
Lately
Direction
Fact
Comedies
Accept
Doing
Wondered
Get
Confined
Decided
Whether
Successful
Career
The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.
Ben Wheatley
Me
Try
Nothing
Films
Critic
See
Horror
Construct
Wrong
Idea
Comedies
Genre
Make
Go
Just
Where
Romantic
Romantic Comedies
Stories
Whole
I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.
Bill Hader
Crazy
Had
Supporting
Comedies
Parts
Because
Lot
Offered
Done
I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the silent comedies of the '20s.
Bill Irwin
Those
TV
Silent
Gleason
Comedies
Were
Lot
Jackie
Them
Used
Show
Things
Watch
Early
Phil
Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.
Bill Pullman
You
Feeling
Sleeping
Say
Those
Kind
Find
Almost
Bewildered
Comedies
Because
Leave
Were
Lines
Truthfully
Precious
Romantic
Romantic Comedies
While
Little
Them
Full
Avoided
I've never really been a television watcher and watched comedies, and I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television as the dad.
Bill Pullman
Television
Never
Invitations
Comedies
Gotten
Been
Really
Dad
Watched
Number
I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.
Bobby Farrelly
Great
Seriously
General
Tougher
Take
Feel
Like
Comedies
Reviewers
Reviews
Get
Them
Necessarily
I'm not into comedies that are joke-driven.
Bobcat Goldthwait
Comedies
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