Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

I have a very dark sense of humor.

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

Morbid humor is very valid, even healthy, as long as you don't do it gratuitously.

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.

One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and inappropriate jokes in the presence of dead people all the time.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.

One of the things I'll always remember from my time with 'Black Mirror' is the sense of all the tongue and cheek, and very, very dark sense of comedy there, too.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.

I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.

A big part of the humor is in identifying with the tragic elements of the film. The New Zealand sense of humor is very dark. Our films are usually very dark and it's always someone being killed. Usually a child.

She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

I quite like dark humor.

I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

I have a dark sense of humor.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.