Pankaj Tripathi Quotes

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.

I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.

Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they were able to make with the characters.

Everything's weird on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny.

You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.

I think I always have Woody Allen in mind whenever I'm creating anything. He's such a genius, and I think 'Annie Hall' is one of the greatest movies ever written.

I want to do a comedy film.

Todd Solondz is a film maker I've always loved because of how he balances darkness, humour and surrealism in his films.

I don't think that 'No Man's Land' is a comedy. I think that it's a serious film with a good sense of humour.

I've been inspired for a long time by Nicole Holofcener. I admire her greatly as an auteur, examining the human condition in a funny, growing, spirited, honestly dark and human way.

I always felt like the best comedy came out of sadness, and some of my favourite shows growing up - a lot of my influences - have these very sad characters and treat that sadness seriously while also being very funny.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

I would love to do a biopic or a situational comedy.

I love Steve Martin so much, even in 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.'

The caustic style of 'Archer' was really on my mind when I was first doing 'BoJack' - perhaps too much!

You can take my dirtiest, craziest joke, and I can break down in my head why there's a good, honest, honorable reason for telling it.

I grew up in a bit of a vacuum. And as a kid, you see 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' and you're like, 'Oh, it's a cartoon.' There's mixed media. It's funny, and there's stop-motion. But as an adult, you figure it out, how the entire underpinnings of their comedy was poking fun at the rank and file of the British aristocracy and the monarchy.

I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

I like to laugh at dark things.

If the social evolution leads to jokes, I use them.