Daniel Kaluuya Quotes

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

I love mixing horror with comedy.

I would love to be part of dark comedies. I love them! They are no-nonsense, no spoonfeeding, and the norms and cliches are left behind.

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.

The more cerebral, slightly darker comedy stuff is where I love to live.

I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

I'm always trying to do anything between comedy and horror.

Horror comedy - very rare in Bollywood.

I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.

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

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

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

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

I love mockumentaries. When they're done right, they're really good.

So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together.

I really like just super dry comedy.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.