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People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.

If it's scary, it's supposed to be scary. If it's funny, it's supposed to be funny. That's all I try to do.

I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.

I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

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

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.