Jason Gann Quotes

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

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there's some levity added to it.

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.

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.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

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

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

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

I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'

When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.'

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.

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

I think it would be exhausting and depressing, to write, to watch and to live, if it was just focused on drama. It's heavy. Also, I think the humor really highlights the pathos and the struggle. You can slam it up against drama, and it makes both shine.

In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

I think you gotta have some humor [in your story]. People gotta have a moment to laugh and feel that it's not taken 100% serious. That's important.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

I love drama - I would say more than I even love comedy - but I like in One Mississippi that I can go from a very moving moment to a Willy Wonka tube up my ass. I like the silliness as much as I like drama.

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama.

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.

I think with romantic comedies it's a lot about tone, because different romantic comedies have different tones.

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.