Clever Writing Quotes

I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs.

What I always got excited about with 'Arrested Development' was the element of surprise.

Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I think it's witty. And I have those great clothes. You have a great, witty, intelligent script and you look like a million dollars, because we have a great costumer, and it's a pretty good place to begin.

I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register.

This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

We had met with Ben Stiller here in LA when I was shooting The Ring and he was doing Meet The Fockers and we have friends in common. But we didn't know each other well. He's fantastic and we really had a great time on this and we were both laughing at where we were at, this other couple, and how it was mirroring what we were going through as well. It was clever writing in that way.

When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what we did.

Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed volume can lay claim to being a multimedia work, this book earns that distinction.

'The Simpsons' basically - and 'Futurama' - are really smart shows. They're kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you're paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated.

If you're going to make a statement, I think you should write it in prose and make a statement. If you have characters who are mouthpieces for a point of view, then you have to be very clever about disguising it.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

I think the cleverness is inadvertent.

I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.

I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view.

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

I like a good suspense thriller when it's smart and well done like 'Armed Response' is.

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant.

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.