Edward Zwick Quotes

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

Funny is when you're serious.

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

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

There's so much humor in serious things sometimes.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.

I don't take myself or the species too seriously. You have to laugh at everything.

You can find humor in most things, and even terrible things.

Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

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

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.