Jason Reitman Quotes

The best cartoons work by making fun of sacred cows, in trying to inflict the uncomfortable.

You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think 'The Guard' had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying.

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.

I think jokes can actually go to places that drama can't.

I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.

There is almost no topic that can't benefit from being talked about in a humorous way.

I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.

A joke's a very serious thing.

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

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

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

Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.