Salvador Dali Quotes

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.

We're always aiming for storytelling that feels a bit surreal.

He walked on water. Perhaps. But could he have *swum* on land? In matching knickers and dark glasses? With his Fountain in a Love-in-Tokyo? In pointy shoes and a puff? Would he have had the imagination?

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art.

I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism.

I'm not always interested in Hollywood norms and boy-next-door kind of characters.

You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.

Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.

I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

I guess the essence of my comedy is to get into a very abnormal situation but act like it's normal.

Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

I love to come to L.A. because it's one of the most inspiring places because there are no rules.

My style is that I have no style.

Sometimes the darker the work, the more fun you can have.

I like wee arguments, I've never been into jokes. I'm more into strange things and madness and things escalating and things not really making sense.

All my close friends are non-conformist. To say 'misfits' sounds bad, but there is something positive about being a little on the outside - it gives you an interesting perspective on things - and I think that's something Robyn and I share.

I watched a lot of avant-garde films, like Maya Deren's work, and I love film's technical ability to do things that are impossible in real life. It's related to the way collage allows you to manipulate reality and the hierarchies that are inherent in our awful but amazing world.

I never saw a painting that would not be improved by the addition of tropical fish.

With the 'Boosh,' we were trying to do this strange, weird thing that had its own language and visual style, and it wasn't really what the powers that be wanted.

Comedy shouldn't be restrained under the belt of normality.

Working with David Lynch, rules go out the door.

The nice thing about gag manga is how it has this aspect where, at the very least, you're permitted to come out with anything. In my case, anything can talk. Like the mountains.

'Aiyyaa' was a bizarre film.