I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
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.
There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible.