David Zucker Quotes

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• I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk…
• I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden…
• Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and…
• Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I…
• You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be…
• I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The…
• Chevy Chase and Bill Murray - we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn't think they were right for Airplane!…
• Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in…
• I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would…
• I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in…
• I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would…
• I don't take reviews very seriously, but in their totality I think they are representative of how the audience feels, and of what their reaction…
• I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and…
• I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do.…
• I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the…
• I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off.
• I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.
• It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely…
• It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other…
• Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn't. I don't believe that…

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