Takeshi Kitano Quotes

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

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

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

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.

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

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.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

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

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

I quite like dark humor.

Life would be tragic if it weren't 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.'

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

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

I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also a possibility to escape that darkness. So, for me, humor is an attempt to capture everyday tragedy and everyday hopeful moments that we experience all of the time.