“All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.” IfsWantKindMeanAudienceLaughingComedyDirectorsTestsLoudScreening Author:Todd Solondz
“I mean, it feels like a homecoming in a really wonderfully comfortable place to be - the same director, the same musical director, my same dressing room! [laughs] It's a great place to build something with freedom.” FeelsMeanRoomsLaughingDirectorsComfortableMusicalDressingsHomecomingDressing Rooms Author:Kelli O'Hara
“To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.” PeopleMindMatterCharacterActionForgetActingLaughingMinutesShapesDirectorsAbsolutesRelateConcentrationSnapsGiggle Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“There is something about being a director where, for me personally, I get to . . . it's the closest I'll ever come to being able to be a stand up. And to use my particular sense of humor, and hear people laughing, without me having to stand up in front of an audience and tell jokes.” PeopleUseAbleAudienceLaughingFrontsParticularDirectorsJokesSense Of HumorClosest Author:Barry Sonnenfeld
“The director sets the tone, and if someone's ruling it with an iron fist, people are quiet and the days go long in my experience, when there's a very serious tone, the days just drag. When there's someone who, in between takes, is joking or laughing the days go quick.” PeopleIfsLongLaughingSeriousQuietDirectorsToneIronDragFistsRuling Author:Channing Tatum
“We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.” FeelsKindImportantWarHomeDiesActorsNationsQualityAudienceLaughingGoneComedyDirectorsLaughterUnderstoodDelightProducersLabelsLoudEmsWarmthWowDozenBellyMirthAisleAppreciativeDismayChucklesBelly LaughsYaks Book:Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself
“Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh.” FirstsSometimesLaughingComedyDirectors Author:Tina Fey
“I love watching audiences scream. I imagine it's the same joy that a director feels who has made a comedy when he or she is sitting at the back of a theater listening to the audience laugh. That sound of laughter is so sweet to a comedy director and that's exactly how a horror film feels when you hear the audience scream.” FeelsMadeFilmJoySoundAudienceLaughingComedyImagineSweetListeningHorrorDirectorsLaughterSittingTheaterScreamHorror Film Author:Leigh Whannell
“Approaching a comedy character is fun because you get to sit down with the director and ask, "What makes you laugh?" Then you end up bouncing ideas off each other.” IdeasEndsCharacterAsksFunLaughingComedyDirectorsMake You Laugh Author:Matthew Lewis
“When I was younger, I would mess about and have a laugh with everyone. I was doing Atonement when I was about 12, and as we went to do this very serious scene, the director Joe [Wright] came up to me ... I'd been giggling right up to the beginning of the take. And he came up to me and said, "Okay, you need to be serious now." I completely idolized him.” NeedsSaidLaughingSeriousSceneDirectorsOkayMessAtonementHave A LaughIdolized Author:Saoirse Ronan
“I think [director] Malcolm Lee is a real master at being able to make you laugh while bringing serious subject-matter, so the movie doesn't hinge on silliness, but on real life.” ThinkingRealMatterAbleLaughingSubjectsSeriousMastersDirectorsReal LifeSubject MatterHingesMake You LaughSillinessSerious Subjects Author:Ice Cube