Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

Life is funny, at the same time being totally harsh.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.

I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.

That's what sort of fascinates me - what's funny as well as what's sad.

What I find funny are peoples' blind spots. That's the funniest thing about anybody - when they just don't realize who they are. What's funny about seeing a hippo do ballet is it thinks it's a swan.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.