Henry Selick Quotes

Horror comedy - very rare in Bollywood.

The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

I think 'Paper Moon' is a comedy-drama. 'What's Up, Doc?' was the most severe comedy, but my favorite film of my own is 'They All Laughed,' which is a kind of bittersweet comedy.

I'm a very funny man, so funny comes natural. And if you want to create horror, you need to be funny or campy.

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

I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

There's always been this tradition of satirizing these rich groups of people.

I'm a fan of good horror movies.

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

I'm not a big slasher film fan.

I don't like horror films. Horror films in the sense of the way horror films are now, like 'Saw,' I don't like that, I don't.

In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.

I tend to fall more into the fun horror genre than the traumatic horror genre. I love the films where you're laughing as much as screaming, but that doesn't mean I don't like the other ones.

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.

I'm not interested in making horror-comedies, but I'm very interested in making scary movies with funny parts.

I love 'Shaun of the Dead.'

I don't personally like slasher movies that make you scream in the movie theater.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

'The Twilight Zone' was sometimes shockingly cruel, far crueller than most TV drama today would dare to be.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

My wife is Swedish, so I'm familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It's very dark and very deadpan.

Loads of stuff that I've done has always had a hint of comedy. I did this show called 'Psychoville' that's a horror-comedy. Because I just think that's what life's like.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

Satire is tragedy plus time.