Mike Judge Quotes

Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

Actually, for me, it's really funny because I play characters with mommy issues more than anything, and I have a great relationship with my mom!

As a viewer myself, I tend to gravitate toward projects that have a really strong voice of a strong creator.

I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little more worthy.

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

I am a director because I believe in my own impulses and my own point of view, and that belief encourages me to tell stories that will move, provoke, and change people. But I became a director because I wanted to be a part of the world.

Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.

To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular.

Element of surprise is really fun for me in comedy. I have to be surprised, and everything's been done.

I'm an ardent fan. All I really had to do was put myself in my own shoes.

For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.

You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.

I'd like to think that if you find your audience there are still opportunities there to go and tell an original story.

Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

There are a lot of things that are in the show that harken back to the old show, but I really wanted to resist doing a greatest hits. It was irresistible to do a greatest hits, but it was almost too easy. There are things that I know are still ahead of us, in the future of whatever Arrested Development brings.

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art.

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

My goal was to do something that incorporated all the stuff I do and have it feel like something new, like it was hopefully taking the stand-up special paradigm and turning it on its head.

In some ways, I'm relieved that I didn't have a son.

Rodney set a plate in front of me and one in front of my mother. I almost fainted when she began to eat instead of hurling it at him. Had one of the vampires gotten tired of her bitching and bitten her into a better mood? She caught my flabbergasted look. "I watched what he put in it" she said defensively. Rodney, instead of being insulted, just laughed. "You're welcome, Justina.