Claude Chabrol Quotes

It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that 'Gangnam Style' is satire.

The best thing about writing speculative fiction is the opportunity to satirize the whole wide world. The America in 'A Better World' isn't ours, but it's pretty close, so I could lampoon everything from partisan politics to the cult of celebrity to our general disaffection. To me, all that is the point.

There's always been this tradition of satirizing these rich groups of people.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.

It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.

It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

Ksenia Sobchak as president is like Sergei Shnurov as an artist. It's satire. It's a very high-level art project.

As satirists, we get to stand on the sidelines of life and comment on what's happening.

I don't think a lot of people gave 'Beavis & Butt-Head' credit for how subtle it could be.

I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes and slapstick. I wanted to talk about some deeper things within the comedy.

I always want to lead with comedy but hopefully be able to sneak my message through at the same time.

I think I have never seen a humorless movie that was any good to me.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

In my comedy, I'm not always trying to say something, but when I'm playing a creepy dude, you're laughing because you know that creepy dude. You've heard that dude say something awful, and I'm just putting a little creative spin on it.

I really believe that comedy is an incredible tool, and you can use it in many ways.

I love comedy, but more than that, I love comedy that has a message and that has some stakes.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.