Armando Iannucci

I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.

— Armando Iannucci

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

— Armando Iannucci

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

— Armando Iannucci

I assume everyone around me is older because they look more responsible.

— Armando Iannucci

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

— Armando Iannucci

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

— Armando Iannucci

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

— Armando Iannucci

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

— Armando Iannucci

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will…

— Armando Iannucci

As a gut thing, my next project is always the complete opposite of the thing I've just done. So if I've spent…

— Armando Iannucci

There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if…

— Armando Iannucci

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

— Armando Iannucci

I always think you've just got to move on. If you keep wallowing in the thing that you've done for a while…

— Armando Iannucci

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

— Armando Iannucci

I kind of like that thing of you being caught up. You think you can judge someone, and before you know it,…

— Armando Iannucci

When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do…

— Armando Iannucci

Joe Biden is that special combination of someone who is very talented and influential, but when he starts speaking, there's inevitably going…

— Armando Iannucci

When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it's always tempting to think everything has to be big and…

— Armando Iannucci

There's a guy on YouTube ... who just re-voices Donald Trump. He does a thing called Sassy Trump which is just to…

— Armando Iannucci

We only now talk to our own, on Facebook and social media we talk to people, we friend and we like and…

— Armando Iannucci

What's funny about that office is it's entirely dependent on how close you are to the president, because the president decides what…

— Armando Iannucci

I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions…

— Armando Iannucci

I hate the idea of labels and saying you are member of one party or another and signing up to all sorts…

— Armando Iannucci

It seemed like after the 80s and 90s there came a sort of weird time in politics, where something like Spitting Image…

— Armando Iannucci

I don't think I could ever reach the giddy heights of the inspired comedy and tragedy that's happening now in Washington. I…

— Armando Iannucci

It's still very relevant to how politics works within government, but in terms of the way into politics for an outsider, no,…

— Armando Iannucci

I think it's a slightly crazy time actually, it's very difficult to satirise because each of politicians is in their own way…

— Armando Iannucci

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

— Armando Iannucci

The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.

— Armando Iannucci

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

— Armando Iannucci

Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.

— Armando Iannucci

I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the…

— Armando Iannucci

When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some…

— Armando Iannucci

Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness…

— Armando Iannucci

It almost seems like anyone who doesn't seem political in any way is at an advantage. It's almost like anti-politics. A stage…

— Armando Iannucci