Michael Pena Quotes

I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

I have a dark sense of humor.

My humor is traced with dark - I've got dark patches all over the place.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.

I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

I quite like dark humor.

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there's some levity added to it.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

My wife is Swedish, so I'm familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It's very dark and very deadpan.