Baltasar Kormakur Quotes

Calling Batman 'the Dark Knight' is like calling Papa Smurf 'the Blue Patriarch':you're not fooling anyone.

I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I think Aquaman feels - and deservedly so - like an A-list, premier DC hero. I hope that carries on; it certainly will carry over to Justice League.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.

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

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

When I go to Batman movies, I always think, 'Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.' especially as they got darker when they go to the Christian Bale era.

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins' set the bar very high for the superhero movie, as it showed that you could get a great cast for these movies and take a real filmmaker's perspective.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

I went and met with Tim Burton for the role of Batman. But I just couldn't really take it seriously; any man who wears his underpants outside his pants just cannot be taken seriously.

Good comedy is ageless.

The Dark Satirist, like the Dark Knight - that could be a good name for a superhero.

I'd like to get into the superhero genre. I'd love to do either a DC or a Marvel character.

I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.

Comedy is a weird thing.

There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'

I like Colbert because he's funny, and he's cool. He knows how to have fun and doesn't stick his nose up to Fox.

Music is never inherently funny!

I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.