Armando Iannucci Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“My 11-year-old thinks I'm cool because he watches things I've made on YouTube.”

“I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.”

“I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch.”

“The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.”

“There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.”

“When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.”

“When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it's always tempting to think everything has to be big and exaggerated and spectacular. And in fact, a lot of the funniest comedy films have been very intimate.”