George Burns Quotes

I am pretty sarcastic and pretty dry.

Honestly, I just like to make movies. The funnier the better.

I don't think people understand what it takes to make a movie unless they've experienced it themselves or been around it. It's a miracle every time you make a movie, and a bigger miracle if it turns out well.

I can be very dry and sarcastic.

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the 'Time Warp Trio' novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.

I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.

What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes, there was no conscious attempt at being either sarcastic or offensive.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

I love the team aspect of filmmaking.

It's such a commitment, making a film, you're really dedicated, it's your life, that's all you do for that period of your life.

He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.* *Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkeys. It had done nothing he had considered particularly entertaining, apart from emit interesting noises, and eventually, once the noises had stopped and the monkeys were no longer doing anything at all—except possibly on an organic level—had needed to be disposed of in the dead of night.

Some films go so well, and some films are disappointing. It's the beauty of the craft. You get it right, and you get it wrong. You have tremendous highs, and you have tremendous lows. Hopefully, you learn from them and become better, as you go along.

I think that the process of making a film is an underrated factor in how that film turns out.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

George Burns, what a man. He read in the paper that it takes ten dollars a year to support a kid in India. So he sent his kids there.

If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema.

It was a very good experience. It wasnt just to make a movie, it was my life. I was employed at The Lord of the Rings for a year and a half.

And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoking signals last year.

Just looking at all the faces here reminds me of some of the great work that was done this year . . . by cosmetic surgeons.

Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. I implore you, send him back to his father and brothers, who are waiting for him with open arms in the penitentiary. I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth.

[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.