“First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can cut - ' when I first saw it 'But I don't know after that.' The first time I put up then in front of people I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can take that out and that out and that out.'” PeopleKnowsFirstsI CanThreeHoursHalfSawsComedyCuttingMinutesFrontsFirst TimeTwentiesWowHalf Hours Author:Ben Stiller
“Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.” YearsWellsMadeIdeasSunComedyMy FriendsYears AgoTwentiesFakeEmpiresGoing AwayCampsVietnamBootsAuditionsBoot CampEmpire Of The Sun Author:Ben Stiller
“I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire twenties with some success as a comedy writer but not much as a performer. And you have to be kind of informed and naive at the same time.” ThinkingKindShowsDifficultChallengesComedyTwentiesClimbsBe KindPerformersNaiveShow BusinessDifficult Challenges Author:Steve Martin
“For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.” HumorFunnyAudienceComedyMinutesListeningConversationJokesTwentiesFollowingCakeStand Up Comedy Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe that you have to have lived through something to write about it.” PeopleWritingBelieveHateForceI BelieveComedyPercentI HateTwentiesEightyFallacy Author:Tone Bell
“If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about the comedy boys, I'm talking about the more serious writers - it seems inevitable that almost every one has been encouraged until the critics feel that they have built them up beyond the point where they can control them; then it's time to knock them down again.” IfsFeelsYearsHas BeensSeemsPastTalkingBoysFiveComedySeriousBuiltTwentiesCriticsInevitableThirtyPlaywrightThirty YearsNot TalkingTwenty Five Book:Conversations with Edward Albee Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.” FeelsWritingYearsKindHas BeensPastComedyRomanticTwentiesMy FavoriteStupidityGenreRomantic LoveEmbarrassedRevealingAdmission Author:Mindy Kaling
“One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years, I can probably speak best about my own profession.” YearsI CanDreamHappensJobsFallCoursesSpeakMy OwnFiveComedyTwentiesProfessionEvolveRisingFive YearsTwenty FiveChanging Course Author:Conan O'Brien
“There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.” PeopleHumorFunnyPowerComedyTwentiesStoresYesterdayDepartmentTrappedSelflessnessDepartment StoresEscalators Author:Steven Wright