Kevin Kline Quotes

In a satire, you need foolishness.

It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.

Everything can be satirized.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

I like to write a lot of satire.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

If you're satirizing something, you're hitting at something that's real and true, and putting it on its head, and we did that with 'Tropic Thunder.'

Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.