Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.
I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.
The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're pretending to be serious now, more or less.
