Parody Quotes

(On his role as a basketball player in `Semi-Pro`) I love the fact that this is historically accurate and funny all at the same time. You can parody the sport and you can parody the era, but at the same time you have a built-in arc for the audience as they watch this team try to attain the lofty goal of fourth place.

(On bands copying Genesis): I wouldn`t wish it upon anybody to try and be successful in this day and age being a parody of a band nobody likes anyway.

The other day a friend called and told me they made a porn film using the title of my first movie. I guess you know you`ve made it when there`s a porn parody of a movie you`ve done.

All I want to be sure of is that viewers understood it was a giant self-parody. If anyone took it seriously, they really need to get a life.

I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I`m a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I`m not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn`t exist.

(To `Weird Al" Yankovic`, when asked for permission to do a parody of "Smells Like Teen Spirit") "It isn`t going to be about food, is it?".

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

I`m against caricatures, I`m against parodies;if you say that this scene has the effect of a parody, then I have to take your word for it, but then I`m ashamed of myself and I apologize.

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody.

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can`t decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I`m doing a parody.