Paul Di Filippo Quotes

I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

I think you need humour and a sense of fun, which is what I try to bring to my books to leaven the danger and action. The ones that really transcend the genre always have a great laugh in them, such as 'Fright Night,' 'Lost Boys,' 'American Werewolf in London' - just to name a few.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.

I think what Stargate has going for it is a sense of humor about their science fiction.

If you read enough Lionel Fanthorpe, your brain starts to turn to jelly and just dribbles out of your ears.

I love comedies. I take comedy very seriously as a form. It's a serious form, involving a certain way of looking at life, specifically the painful aspects of life. I get asked, "How can you have such failures in your films?" Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.

Comedy is a man in trouble. And without it, there's no humor.

You can't have good comedy without drama in it.

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

There's a lot of laughing on a horror movie set. They're magical in that way.

A thin line separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Our lives constantly walk that line. When we slip off on one side or the other, we're taken by surprise. But who said there wouldn't be surprises? Knowing God just means that all the rules will be fair; at the end of our life drama, we'll see that. We never know how things will turn out, but if we know with certainty they will make sense regardless of how they turn out, we're on to something.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

Aliens don't get stuck in air ducts. It's practically a well-known fact.

I probably would never be able to direct a comedy because I'm not that funny. I don't have that funny bone in me, so it wouldn't be a natural fit. But I love the world of science fiction, and I love the world of technology and science too.

And I could always set Coach Hedge on fire,” Leo volunteered. “Then he can be fire.” The thought of a blazing satyr screaming, “Die, scumbag!” as he attacked Gaea was almost enough to make Piper laugh— almost.

I think the funniest stuff comes from the heaviest stuff.

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.

I come in peace...Take me to your lizard.