Debra Granik Quotes

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

I think mockumentaries are such well-trodden grounds for comedies. It has been done a lot, but it is because of that informal nature, it's such a fertile ground to be funny.

It's very weird trying to imagine yourself as a 'comedy character.'

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

Rob and I both have this strange sense of comedy which always involves us being the butt of our own jokes.

Woody Allen's 'The Complete Prose' - It's just the best selection of comic writing by one author. You know it's good comedy when you get quite demoralised about yourself.

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

Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they were able to make with the characters.

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

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.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

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

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

My instincts are not comedic.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.