Miriam Toews Quotes

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

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

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

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.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

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

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

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.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

Funny is when you're serious.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

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.

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.