Satire Quotes - page 4

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted. (John Cusack)
I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them. View quote
Zack Snyder
Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
The science fiction and manga readers had the same... Most fiction writers then had had some experience in the comic and some of it had even been absorbed completely... I can not understand why those who love science fiction also loves the manga and vice versa. There are two kinds characterized by a biting satire and at worst are called "extravagant".... Both are aimed toward the future, and therefore contain romantic adventures for young people. View quote
Osamu Tezuka
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species. View quote
Alan Lomax
The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it. View quote
Adam McKay
We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage. View quote
Adolph Green
A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better. View quote
Bonnie Raitt
When television producers say it is the parents' obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption. View quote
Gregg Easterbrook
I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire. View quote
Henry Selick
Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire. (Jennifer Armintrout)
A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire. View quote
Chris Morris
But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine. View quote
Jerry Zucker
I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project. View quote
Michael Hastings
Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way. View quote
Neill Blomkamp
I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms. View quote
Nile Rodgers
Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama. View quote
Stephen Gaghan
By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it. View quote
T. J. Miller
I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit. View quote
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire. View quote
Yahoo Serious
Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause; And aiming at the self-same end, Satire is always virtue's friend. (Charles Churchill (satirist))
I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it okay to cry. View quote
David Sedaris
Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it. View quote
Jim Backus
Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility. View quote
Umberto Eco
Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel