Jason Robert Brown Quotes

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

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 definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

Comedy, unlike drama, demands surprise. You can't quietly and thoughtfully enjoy a comedy.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

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

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

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

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

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.

When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.'

I'm like a sight gag.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.