Matthew Reilly Quotes

Everything can be satirized.

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

In a satire, you need foolishness.

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

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

Humor is reason gone mad.

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

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

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.

'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

As long as it's funny, there's no such thing as too far.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.