Terry Zwigoff Quotes

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

I tend to like dry humor.

I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

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.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

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

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.