Anthony Marra Quotes

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

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

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

I am drawn to humorous art that is ironic.

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

I don't really need to be dirty to be funny.

The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.