Whit Stillman Quotes

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

Comedy should be easy, not laboured.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

It's a mystery to me what makes people laugh.

Comedy is subjective.

I always gravitate toward the humor in something.

There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'

I don't think humor is something to be afraid of.

Music is never inherently funny!

I think that we all enjoy silliness to varying degrees but I think everyone can enjoy a relatable thing if it is expressed in a funny way.

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.

I'll laugh at anything.

What I do with impressions, I try not to be mean-spirited. To me, it's just about being silly.

Sometimes it's difficult to laugh at certain things but comedy can help.

My whole life is a funny moment, man.

I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

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.