Jaime Camil Quotes

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.

Comedy is all about the pause.

Comedy, unlike drama, demands surprise. You can't quietly and thoughtfully enjoy a comedy.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

For comedy, timing is key.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.'

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.