Topical Quotes

(On why he dislikes films with obvious political messages): It`s very important for me to be in movies that don`t have a message. Messages tend to be a little preachy, and I don`t think that`s what movies are about. It`s important for me to be in movies that have a human level, have a heart in them. That`s the reason why I did this (Rendition) and it just so happens to be really topical. This political issue is a very important one right now which as Americans we need to look at. So it seems like it`s (the film) is very political, it seems like there`s a message in it, but ultimately there`s a real story about human beings dealing with actual human things.

Woody (Woody Allen) makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic or political.

The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.

Such dangers as breach of strategic stability, transnational crime and the spread of nuclear weapons are at this time topical for all European states.

I should always be known as an impressionist and comedian, it is just that what I do now is more topical and political in nature.

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn`t be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers` music is very topical. It almost says, `This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.` Not mine.

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

A lot of patients we see come in asking for topical medicines because of wax burns and scars.

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