P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.

Certainly when, you know, you put a lot of creative people together, there's ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side, there's a lot of camaraderie and closeness.

I laugh very hard at work every day.

I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.

This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.

I've worked in an office. People are sitting down doing their stuff, or pretending to do their stuff, and they're bored. I've heard a car tire screech and 30 people went to the window. That was a piece of excitement in their day, that a car might have had to stop quickly, you know. You don't need dinosaurs, you know.

When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

I was never in the office [of Rolling Stone]. It was very different from Lampoon, where we spent a lot of time together socially, which is to say "drunk."

The people I work with are like family. I don't mean this in a nice way.

For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.

I think we've all worked with that person at the office who takes themselves and their job so seriously.

If I had an office job, I'd probably be doing the exact same thing I'm doing on television: hanging out by the water cooler and talking to co-workers about their relationships.

I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided.

A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.

Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time.

Surely in a world of email, video conferencing and virtual assistants, isn't being expected to show up at the office extremely anachronistic? Yet to date it seems that where one works does matter. That creativity and innovation do feed off physical interactions between people.

Three writers together would be a nightmare of obstreperous self-consciousness.

It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.

I am very lucky in my team. They sit opposite me, and I get to see them every day sitting there staring at the seating chart, not doing much. It is almost like a chess game.

There's no faster way to get on the good side of most engineers than making fun of product managers.

When you're in this music thing, and you got friends involved in this, of course ya'll gonna have disagreements, and that's gon' be the outcome: we gon' fight each other.

Working with friends isn't easy - the nature of an artistic project means it's about two strong visions colliding and a bit of mental wrestling.

We've stayed with the business and even though we have the arguments and disagreements that eight guys in a building trying to do a job would have, we try to keep that off the cameras because it's too much drama. Really what it is is we have eight guys who are having fun doing what they do.

Good teams have more fun. Bad teams have more characters.