Jeff Lindsay Quotes

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

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

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

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.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

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

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

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

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

What's the funniest play ever written? I used to think it was 'Noises Off,' but now that I've seen 'The Liar,' I'm not so sure.

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also a possibility to escape that darkness. So, for me, humor is an attempt to capture everyday tragedy and everyday hopeful moments that we experience all of the time.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.