Joss Whedon Quotes

I can't not put humor in a book.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

'The Ugly Truth' isn't trying to change the world with strong political opinions; it's just trying to entertain you with thoughts and ideas from my crazy mind!

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

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

Comedy is deep and wild and I am excited about the mysteries within.

When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.

I think I was born with a natural way of looking at something and trying to find the ways in which it was odd or funny, Even in the sad or angry stuff, I was, 'Well, but where is the funny part of this?'

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

Using humor as a wedge into different kinds of stories is my go-to. I think anything I do would have some sort of streak of humor in it.

The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in which we're ruled by big talking turds, it doesn't mean that we are. So you shouldn't feel depressed.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.