Book Quote by Daniel Handler

I feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I feel like…

— Lauren Groff

I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

— Zack Snyder

With silent films, you're better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It's this pact that leads to emotion being created.

— Michel Hazanavicius

I do think that the emotional weight of 'Biutiful' has blinded some viewers to the beauty and complexity of the film.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think it's much harder to make dramatic films, and much harder to create a film that's engaging, where you're actually properly looking at…

— Eoin Macken

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.

— Jess Walter

Irony ruined everything Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be `so bad they were good`. They were not made for the…

— John Waters

Many people think making a film about history... about war... about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don't see things…

— Arnon Goldfinger

I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the…

— Salman Rushdie

All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're dealing with…

— Chukwudi Iwuji

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the…

— Lionel Barrymore

And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer…

— Karen Russell