Michael Lehmann Quotes

I have a very dark sense of humor.

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

Great comedy is always sadistic.

My humor is traced with dark - I've got dark patches all over the place.

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.

I quite like dark humor.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

'War on Everyone,' I think... the script was hilarious to me, but it's very dark, dark humor. It's super dark.

I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

One of the things I'll always remember from my time with 'Black Mirror' is the sense of all the tongue and cheek, and very, very dark sense of comedy there, too.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.

I like to laugh at dark things.

I always had a wicked streak in me, the sadist side in me also comes in my comedy films.

I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.

I mean I would still love to be in Mel Brooks' movies; he's great.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back in the beginning, and a lot of really dark comedy had a really anti-sentimental take on life.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. 'Little Miss Sunshine' is like that. That's my fave genre, if I had to pick one.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.