Lev Yilmaz Quotes

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

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.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

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.

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

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

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.

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

When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.'

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

I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

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

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

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.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

It is only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

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.

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