Justin Halpern Quotes

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

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.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

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

I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.

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

I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.

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

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

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

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

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

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.