Peter Hedges Quotes

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

Mike and I like a balance of tones. We never set out to make an overtly silly show or an overly serious dramatic show.

There's depth in my comedy.

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

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

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

I like things that are funny and have a lot else in them besides that - ideas, for example.

A joke's a very serious thing.

I think any decent comedy worth its salt has to have heart, otherwise it's just a bunch of jokes. I think people enjoy comedies that have a heart and soul to them.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

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

My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.

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

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

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

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.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

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 try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.