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You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.

It's just so hard to get movies made, especially comedies.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!

Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming.

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it's always tempting to think everything has to be big and exaggerated and spectacular. And in fact, a lot of the funniest comedy films have been very intimate.