Quotes About Terry Zwigoff

For a long time, there was this rumor that I turned down doing 'Austin Powers,' which is not true. While they did send me the script, I don't think I was ever a serious consideration to direct it. I'm sure they probably sent it to 20 others as well.

If I see my films described as 'quirky' or, even worse, 'snarky' one more time, I'm going to probably seriously consider an early retirement. All these years, I've labored under the conceit that they were "darkly humorous.'

A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.

People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, like 'Donald Duck' comics.

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong.