A Quote by Tina Fey

Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh.

Tina Fey

Quote Topics

Comedy Director Doing First Gets Laugh Out Sometimes Then Will Yell

Quote Author

Tina Fey
American - Comedian
Born: May 18, 1970

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.

Leigh Whannell

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

Ken Jeong

Really good director sometimes will kind of see what the actors are doing and then get in there. Because there's the realization that you have to find it a little bit and then kind of clump around and sniff it out.

Ron Livingston

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

Dane Cook

A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will be a great script that's written beautifully, and then the director who has also written it does not have the facility to translate it.

Richard Ayoade

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

Antoine Fuqua

If I love the script and have a good rapport with the director, then first-time director can also be very special.

Konkona Sen Sharma

I hope that in another way we can move the need to say, instead of being a Black director, or a woman director, or a French director that I'm just a director.

Kari Skogland

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

John Waters

A strong film director does leave you to your devices. A strong director allows you to be free and you trust that he's there and he will tell you if you've gone too far. A strong director allows you to be much more experimental and take greater chances than a director who isn't secure within himself.

Elizabeth Taylor

I've always laughed at the term "female director" or even "black director." A director's a director.

Rami Malek

It is true that I got recognition. But however good the comedies are, nobody will accept a good comedy director as a good director. That is the sad part of it. Nobody knows who directed the 'Laurel and Hardy' movies. They know only Laurel and Hardy. Directors will never get a good name if they direct a comedy film.

Priyadarshan

I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.

Peter Sarsgaard

Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.

Malcolm McDowell

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.

Matthew Lewis

It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.

Eva Marie Saint

A Quote by Tina Fey

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors