Rupert Sanders Quotes

I like to make broader strokes with politics in my work.

I am of the opinion that I am not a political writer, and, moreover, that as far as true literature is concerned, there actually are no political writers. I think that my writing is no more political than ancient Greek theatre. I would have become the writer I am in any political regime.

I do not write political shows; I should not write political shows.

I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.

When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.

I'm not a political comic.

I suppose when any movie dealing with politics is released, there is a knee-jerk assumption that it is propelled by a liberal agenda. That may be true most of the time, but not with 'Nothing but the Truth.'

I'm not a political filmmaker.

It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong.

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question.

It is difficult to make political art work.

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.

Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we're fundits! We're not pundits!

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

I had to make a movie about politics sometime in my career and it was impossible to do it seriously.

You have some great films every year, but for the most part, no one is making films with heavy messages or themes. People are afraid of doing that.