Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

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.

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

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

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

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

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

You cannot have the drama without 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.

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there's some levity added to it.

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

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

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.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

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

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

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.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.