George Pierce Baker Quotes

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

I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.

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

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

Farce is a much-maligned form. It's easy to do badly, and therefore, audiences may have a negative feeling about it.

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.

A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

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

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

Humor is reason gone mad.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

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

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

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.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

I like really stupid comedies.