Alexandre Desplat Quotes

Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

I love comedy. It's something that I think Marvel does so well, and it's one of the reasons I love Marvel so much is the quips that you get: that kind of underlying everything and cutting through the very heavy emotional stuff.

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

I like to play the comic relief or parts that aren't necessarily comedic but that I can find the comedy in.

I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.

Funny and sad are two sides of the same coin. I think that most comedians are able to tap into deep subject matter.

I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there's some levity added to it.

The things that I gravitate toward in film and TV are things that make me laugh but then break my heart.

The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.

The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. And when I say somebody else, of course I mean Jason Bateman. He's born to play boring characters because he's such a bore. He's one of the most boring human beings.

You can't have good comedy without drama in it.

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny.

I love drama - I would say more than I even love comedy - but I like in One Mississippi that I can go from a very moving moment to a Willy Wonka tube up my ass. I like the silliness as much as I like drama.

There's something therapeutic about connecting with an audience - when there's something really sort of odd or silly that you think is funny, and conveying it to an audience.

Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.

being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done.