Seth Grahame-Smith Quotes

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

Jane Austen is very amusing.

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

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

I have a dark sense of humor.

The more cerebral, slightly darker comedy stuff is where I love to live.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

I've never got on very well with Jane Austen.

I'm hypersensitive to negativity and duplicity, and I want to push it away by writing comedy. Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across and allows me to play dastardly, multi-layered people.

My wife is Swedish, so I'm familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It's very dark and very deadpan.

There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing.

Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.