Mitchell Hurwitz Quotes

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

All families are liable to have degenerate members.

Everybody has a dysfunctional family.

People feel very ashamed to admit that they have in-law problems. They think it's something petty. But it's not petty at all. It hits deep emotions.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

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.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

Certainly I have made comments on American society with the various pictures and have done about nine antiwar paintings. But I did them because I was incorporating my feelings into my work.

I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.

I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.

I think the problems with comedians that are political, and there are some brilliant ones, are the ones that offer no solutions. Not that there's a moral obligation for a comic to fix things, but I like to see a comic that's upset about something and offer a solution. It can be a funny solution. I like to see the thought process.

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.

As satirists, we get to stand on the sidelines of life and comment on what's happening.

Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part.

If I had written a book saying, 'Ladies, your life is terrible,' I would have sold three copies. It's always better to laugh people into recognition.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.