“In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as hand-to-hand together as anything else in the world.” WorldHandsTogetherBrainComedyViolenceSickHands Together Author:Seth Rogen
“It's the way that I think about the world, and the way that I like to tell stories - I don't think you should get too heavy. There's enough out there, in the world, with violence. I think that comedy lightens the heaviness [of the world].” ThinkingWorldWayShouldEnoughStoriesComedyViolenceHeavyHeaviness Author:Martin McDonagh
“In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.” IfsWayAmericaUsedGivenDealsComedyViolenceSceneGunWow Author:Scott Thompson
“I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.” TryingHeartStoriesRomanceSocialSexComedyViolenceTerrorGenuineCommentary Author:Alan Ball
“Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where violence and comedy and characters kind of work together really well.” WellsKindCharacterWantedTogetherFictionComedyViolenceDogWorking TogetherReservoirsPulpReservoir Dogs Author:Seth Rogen