David Lowery Quotes

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

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

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

Funny is when you're serious.

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

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

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

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

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.

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.

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

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

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.