DJ Paul Quotes

I've made a career making stuff that nobody sees, so anything that I can do to help make something that people are going to enjoy and want to see over and over again, then I'm there.

The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

There's nothing worse than the sequel that's a letdown from the first movie.

At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.

I’ve never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.

If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.

Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

I don't want to do anything to revisit Freaks and Geeks that isn't awesome.

What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.

You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.

At the end of the day, I just want a movie that's great, that people are going to love and laugh at and be affected by, and also have an emotional journey.

I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.

What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.

That's what I love about the mockumentary style, is the added thing of people knowing they are on-camera, which changes your behavior. That's why we sometimes do what we call spy shots.

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.

I find that so many times when somebody tries to go back in, it sort of isn't as good and you wish they hadn't done it.

I mean Ally McBeal was sort of the closest thing I can think of to kind of being a comedy-drama but that had its own kind of style that meant it got kind of big sometimes. But it was a great show.

The greatest movies are the ones you want to watch again and again.

Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life.

In a war a totalitarian state has a free hand.

Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.

A Universal Good should reflect the reality of the individual benefits that are collected under its name, not the other way around.

Results from a given approach are "facts" as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed.

Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be.

Writing code means always having to say you're sorry.

Bitcoin isn't tied to any commodity - besides trust.

It usually takes me at least ten days and a number of snacks to go from feeling something to being able to articulate what I felt.

You have to look good when you are riding, you have to impress your adversary with your elegance. To look good is already to go fast.

Oulipo ends where the work begins.

Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal.

I'm a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind.

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas.

Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive.

I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make no claim.

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties.

What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others.

There is no Apocalypse.

And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.

To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.

The simple is carefully shunned by those who labour to seem what they would be.