Drew Goddard Quotes

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

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

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

I think drama and comedy are pretty much all the same, and the issue is whether or not you have a sense of humor.

Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.

Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.

That's what sort of fascinates me - what's funny as well as what's sad.

Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.

I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

I feel like with comedy, the crazy things that happen are never serious you know? Like, rubble being poured onto you in drama would be something that's absolutely terrible, but in a comedy it's absolutely terrible but so funny.

Bert Williams was the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew.

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

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

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

In terms of television and movies, I've been really interested in seeing the partnership of comedy and beauty and heart. I think they can go together really well and really thoughtfully. But, I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

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