Robert Benton Quotes

My comedy is different than a lot of people's.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.

Most of my artwork is geared towards being humorous in some light.

In comedy, it's so subjective; there is no right or wrong.

Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren't humorous, they are just crap.

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

I can't not put humor in a book.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.