David O. Russell Quotes

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

Life is such a tragicomedy.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

If you examine any aspect of the human condition long enough, you really do have to start laughing at it. Because the business of being human is kind of ridiculous.

That's what sort of fascinates me - what's funny as well as what's sad.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

I think it's fun to love-to-hate people.

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

Humanity is a comic role.

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.

She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.

Just because we can shoot something that looks like a movie doesn't mean we should. Sometimes if something looks too good, it's not funny. Some things need to look good, because we think it's funny that you'd spend so much time and be so precious about such a stupid idea.