Mitchell Hurwitz Quotes

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

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

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

I'm like a sight gag.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.

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

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.

My films are comical films. They are made to laugh at. They are comical - and scientifically correct.

Some comedies, they want you falling on your face and doing silly things.

Comedy is all about the pause.

I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.

Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

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

Comedy, unlike drama, demands surprise. You can't quietly and thoughtfully enjoy a comedy.

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.