The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.
What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.
I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.
I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.
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.
Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.
Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
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