Diablo Cody Quotes

We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.

If it's scary, it's supposed to be scary. If it's funny, it's supposed to be funny. That's all I try to do.

The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going.

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

I think that laughter is very close to terror and horror. Maybe that's just me, but that sort of all - over rush that happens when you are either laughing or terrified or weeping...? I think that comedians, in and of themselves, make other people laugh because they aren't necessarily the happiest people in the world. So they know a lot about dark things.

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

People do not come to a Penn & Teller show to see a magic show. They just don't. They come to see weird stuff that they can see no place else, that will make them laugh and make the little hairs stand up on the backs of their necks.

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.

When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.

Sometimes, I cry because I'm sad, and sometimes, I cry just because it's just emotional and it's super awesome.

I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another horror film. But I would love to branch out and do more comedy or just more straight dramas.

Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling of being terrified because they're in a safe place while they're reading. That's what you can rely on as a writer, that people can let themselves be really frightened because they're really all right.

It's always fun to make people laugh, and then make them afraid or cry at the same time.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Sometimes emotions just come out in their own way.

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

In film, there's always this looking for the 'If you lay down and burst into tears, you did a good job.'

When I get emotional about something, that's usually when funny comes.

I don't see why you wouldn't cry when you're in an intense environment.

I usually don't cry at movies, although I will get sad. I'm okay with it, though. It's good to make people cry.

We all are scared of bad things… So when you are watching a film, you see your fears on the screen.

I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written.

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. ... A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, amazement, shock, terror, anger, anxiety, melancholia, or the momentary frisson of horror.