Michel Gondry Quotes

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

I'd rather take the mick out of myself before anyone else does. I know they'll do it, so I'd rather get in there first!

Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

I have some sarcastic sides of me.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

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.

I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

I can be very dry and sarcastic.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.