Lars von Trier Quotes

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.

I can't not put humor in a book.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

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

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

I think there should be comedy in everything; it doesn't matter what you're doing.

When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder.