Satire Quotes

You could say it's a Hollywood film because the characters are agents, actors and managers, but it is not a satire like The Player. - David Cronenberg

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. - Art Buchwald

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him. - Shia LaBeouf

When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery. - Bill Mauldin

When television producers say it is the parents' obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption. - Gregg Easterbrook

What is at stake is the precious right of freedom of expression. Cartoons often provide an important form of political satire ... To refuse to distribute a publication because of fear of vigilante violence is to undermine freedom of press _ so vital for our democracy. - Paul Kurtz

We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage. - Adolph Green

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch. - Shawn Wayans

We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us. - Lev Yilmaz