Marley Shelton Quotes

Frankly, I love 'Scream': I think it's one of the great scary/funny movies.

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.

Basic Instinct 2' is camp, not because it takes itself too seriously, nor because it sends itself up, but because we are not sure quite how seriously it wants us to take it.

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

The normal storyline of a horror film or a slasher film is the young, beautiful college folks go camping and get systematically killed by the person in a mask. So that's how it normally is.

All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie.

The completely irreverent tone was the thing that won me over about the first 'Deadpool' movie.

I think I have never seen a humorless movie that was any good to me.

The 'Friday the 13th' Jason movies were way too scary for me.

I actually like 'The Shining' more than I like Kubrick, I think. The tension he sustains through the whole film is so great.

I saw 'Get Out,' and I loved that.

I think 'Deadpool' worked because of what it was. I think 'Deadpool' worked because it was funny. I think 'Deadpool' worked because it didn't take itself seriously. That's why it worked as an R-rated film.

I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.

I guess the tone of jokes is often, at best, irreverent, but it always comes from a place of deep love.

If I'm committed to something really stupid, then I'm in a comedy.

Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

The 3 questions of greatest concern are:, 1) Is it attractive?, 2) Is it amusing?, 3) Does it know its place?

The next minute or so was spent howling on the ceiling . Imp No.1 joined in, but he wasn't really feeling it. It shouldn't be "Who do we hate?", he thought, it really should be "whom", but this probably wasn't a good time to bring that up.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

This is a stupid song and that's the way I like it.

Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day'.

So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.

The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn't think it was very good because I didn't really feel different when it was over.