Audience Quote by Errol Morris

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

— Ivan Reitman

Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had limited theatrical…

— Errol Morris

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

— Michael Haneke

Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and…

— Mort Crim

In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a…

— Pauline Kael

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film…

— Cate Blanchett

I have never made a film to praise or to criticize something. That kind of filmmaking is nothing but propaganda.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I see parody as another form of comedy.

— Bruce Campbell

We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes, there was…

— Stan Laurel

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd…

— Norman Jewison

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a…

— Jonathan Demme

Some things tend to parody themselves, and we don't need to do it very much. 'Survivor' is like that.

— Will Sasso