Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

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.

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.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

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.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

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

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

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

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.

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.

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.