Quotes About Entertainment

I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.

You gotta keep the funny intact.

My goal is really to just make people laugh with integrity, like, with something that I still find funny.

If it is a good film, the audience will like it. They will take to it if it is made with a certain amount of integrity.

I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses the intellect and hits you in the gut.

We need more intellect and humor back on television, instead of the lowest common denominator of comedy - like the fart joke!

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.

I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.

You need music that is compelling and intellectual, but you also need music that just feels good and you can laugh about and dance to, and I think I'm trying to marry the two in some way.

Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.

Personally, I don't claim to be a great director. My films are made for children, not intellectuals.

The intelligent use of contemporary music in film has an enormous audience.

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever get. That's the way you're going to get the best out of people. Whether they know you or not shouldn't matter for comedy. They should get to know you pretty quickly. and they should be having a good time pretty quickly.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

One needs to be super intelligent and have an above-average IQ to be able to work in movies.

I think people will always like intelligent TV.

I like intelligent comedies.

'Housefull' is not a 'leave your brains behind' kind of a film. It has a very intelligent screenplay.

Inevitably, considerations of God in what otherwise intend to be mass entertainments come down to the same thing they come down to in any context, which is a consideration of humanity.