Barry Sonnenfeld Quotes

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

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

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

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.

In terms of pure comedic value, 'Tootsie' is brilliant.

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

Every day, there's something that makes you go, 'Is this Funny or Die?' That can't be a real headline.

The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn't know what any of it meant.

Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.

Comedy is a weird thing.

The Rock was one of my favourite comedy characters growing up, and I still think he is. Mainly because he took himself so seriously by being ridiculous and a buffoon all the time but always took the high status.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

Comedy is a universal language.