Exaggerated Characters Quotes

Dont take Portlandia too personally - Its just a stupid TV show

Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.

I like to create characters that are larger than life. But it's funny because I do a lot of bad guys, and it's because, being European, I usually get cast as bad guys. It's just how it is.

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce.

'Scream Queens' was a big, sensational show. There's nothing subtle about a Ryan Murphy show, and I love that.

There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false.

In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special genre.

They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them.

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.

Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink.

The acting of the '50s is really stylized, so you're not really getting a lot of authentic, everyday characterization of people.

Tina Fey writes crazy, off-color, racist, hilarious stuff for '30 Rock,' but it's always funny because you're in this almost two-dimensional world where there's Jenna Maroney and these over-the-top characters. That's the framework.

'Scary Movie' has lost its way as a franchise. It has turned into 'Disaster Film' and 'Epic Movie' and 'Date Movie' and that isn't what I wanted. I wanted to do a movie that was just grounded in a reality that went to crazy places.