Martin McDonagh Quotes

You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.

Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.

Comedy can take you a lot further in getting your point across. People are entertained, and then, by being entertained, they get your point.

And sometimes you can make your point better with comedy than you can through shouting about it.

Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.

One of the great things about humor is, you can slip things past people with humor, you can use it as a sweetener. So you can actually tell them things, give them messages, get terribly, terribly serious and terribly, terribly dark, and because there are jokes in there, they'll go along with you, and they'll travel a lot further along with you than they would otherwise.

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh.

My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

What's nice with comedy is that you know it's working if it's funny.

I always want to lead with comedy but hopefully be able to sneak my message through at the same time.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

It's always judged on funny first, then the facts, and the realism, and the points that you're trying to make.

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 don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.

For comedy, timing is key.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.

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

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.