Mel Smith Quotes

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

Comedy is very, very hard to achieve.

Comedy is a weird thing.

I'm not a big 'scripted comedy' person necessarily. I'm open for wherever comedy can be found.

Comedy is not an easy genre.

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

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

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.

You know, funny can be universal.

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.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

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

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

There is a universality to comedy.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

I don't think comedy will ever die.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

I love doing comedy, and I don't get a chance to much. I get to play lots of serious people, and killers, and people with a lot of... sheriffs. Good people and bad people, but lots of drama, and to get a chance to be genuinely silly is a great treat for me.