Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

As a little kid when I would watch 'Monty Python'... that would just blow me away because it was just so silly and absurd, but so intelligent, and I loved that.

Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.

I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.

What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce.

I needed to be more self-determining, and the most self-determining thing you can do in comedy is stand-up.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

I'd say that comedy is my God-given gift.

The movies I make don't take place in reality.

I've always felt like there was less creative space on sets with guardians. I just felt independent at a young age.

I'm 100 percent in control of my artistry, music, and finances.

I love comedy. I love the absurdity of it. I love the kind of intelligence that's required to be dumb in comedy.

Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren't humorous, they are just crap.

Using humor as a wedge into different kinds of stories is my go-to. I think anything I do would have some sort of streak of humor in it.

'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.

Can't nobody make you make any music that you don't wanna make. Remember that.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don't respect you. They consider that you're not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story.

Comedy is a noble art.

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

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.