Arthur Smith Quotes

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

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

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.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

No one thought that the Disney Superpower had the ability to laugh at itself, but 'Enchanted' proved everyone wrong.

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

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.

It is a challenge. When you do things that are comedy, you're having to look at the funnier side of life. Often I find Christians - but not just Christians, (any) people who have a certain core belief of things - don't like to have fun made of them at all.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

I can't not put humor in a book.

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

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

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

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

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.

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

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

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

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.