There are parodies of non-existent things.
Kitsch parodies catharsis. . . It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts.
By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.
Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.
I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.
At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.
The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.
I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.
I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
