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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.

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.

It's tricky: with comedy in any movie, you're hungry for an audience to embrace a movie and be a part of an experience that's comedic; it's the easier way to go in some ways.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic.

I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.

Comedy is one of the toughest genres. It is so essential to get the timing right, failing which the humour can fall flat.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.