David Farr Quotes

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also a possibility to escape that darkness. So, for me, humor is an attempt to capture everyday tragedy and everyday hopeful moments that we experience all of the time.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

Cartoon violence is something very vivid and dark but made palatable for children in a fun way. That's the kind of comedy I do - I try to take subjects that might seem deep and make them as silly as possible.

That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being over-the-top, hysterically funny.

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there's some levity added to it.