What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.
When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.
How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
I see parody as another form of comedy.
A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.
Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.
Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.
I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.
Parody is homage gone sour.
You can parody almost anything.
I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.
For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.
Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.
