quotes about Parody
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Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
-- Al Yankovic -
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.
-- Ana GasteyerSource : "Ana Gasteyer Talks Living in Suburgatory". Redbook interview, www.redbookmag.com. March 15, 2012.
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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
-- Bernard Berenson -
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
-- Bill PaxtonSource : "Bill Paxton - No more days of 'Hey, aren't you Chet?'". Interview with Jonathan Litt, tech.mit.edu. May 02, 1997.
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Parody is homage gone sour.
-- Brendan GillSource : BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”
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I see parody as another form of comedy.
-- Bruce CampbellSource : Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. February 11, 2009.
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You can parody almost anything.
-- Bruce McCallSource : "Tuning In to the Absurd". New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2002.
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I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.
-- Busy PhilippsSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody.
-- Cat Deeley -
It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.
-- Georges BatailleSource : Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.5, U of Minnesota Press
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I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.
-- Ivan Reitman -
I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis -
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One parody is worth a thousand polemics ...
-- Jennifer Stone -
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.
-- Michael Haneke -
Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and I say not in the least.
-- Mort CrimSource : Source: www.usatoday.com
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There are parodies of non-existent things.
-- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -
I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
-- Ted Rall -
Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.
-- Tom Wolfe -
What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.
-- Max Tundra -
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The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.
-- Eric Topol