Paul Rust Quotes

When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.

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

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama. I think that ultimately, the less winking that's going on when you're doing comedy - and this is just my own thing, and maybe it's why I've never been hired in comedy except by Bill Lawrence - but I think that the less winking you do with comedy, the better off you are.

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

I think if you have a funny thought, and you want to get off a funny point, try to do it as realistically as you can. If you try to act it funny and accent the funny points, or do it in a funny style, you kind of lose it.

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 make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

It's very hard to write humor.

I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

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

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

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

I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. 'Little Miss Sunshine' is like that. That's my fave genre, if I had to pick one.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.