It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.
“But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.”
“We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.”