Black comedy Quote by Richard Matheson

“You wanted to show everyone you could write about the black heart of a killer. And all the while pretending you don't even have…

— Naoyuki Ochiai

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts

“All my romances, by some kind of collusion between their heroes, have invariably followed a prearranged pattern of mediocrity and tragedy, or more precisely,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I needed to see more from my movies than the extremely tragic black woman, or the magic helpless Negro, or the many black men…

— Issa Rae

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their…

— Oscar Wilde

“We’d had a revelation. This was the direction American movies should take: into idiosyncratic characters, into dialogue with an ear for the vulgar and…

— Roger Ebert

“There’s nothing American audiences like more than a tragedy with a happy ending.”

— Marcus Berkmann

“Each of us has a sophisticated system that throws away most of our experiences, keeps only a few choice samples, mixes them up with…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“A literary fetish is the new black”

— Danielle Ganek

“And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes- a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and…

— Toni Morrison

“Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.”

— Barry B. Powell

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader…

— Kurt Vonnegut