Foolishness Quote by Shoojit Sircar Download Open image “In a satire, you need foolishness.” — Shoojit Sircar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Foolishness Need Satire You
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I think I will be just fine without your satires. They mock my progress. — Crosby Kwaw Copy Share Image
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous,… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I'm uncomfortable with the word satire. In the U.K., there's quite a bit of sledgehammer weight to that word, which is the antithesis of… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Satire works in a bunch of specific ways, like a very precisely-geared bomb. It's a bit like something that looks harmless, and you swallow… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
When you're not working, it does affect you. It destroys you if your film doesn't release. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
My major influence is Satyajit Ray; his film 'Shatranj ke Khilari' was set in Awadh and it gave us memorable characters. Ray's musical scores… — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
Documentary films have always been my passion, I have done documentaries. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
Actually the writer is the most important part of the filmmaking process. That's why I never hesitate in giving credit to a writer which… — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
I am really influenced by normal, simple, everyday life and people, like the Biji and Dolly in 'Vicky Donor,' who used to drink and… — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
We make films because cinemas exhibit it, and they exhibit as we make films. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
Women have shown their skills and that's why they have been accepted in the industry. It's through their skill that they have managed to… — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
Foremost is the casting; you need convincing faces. Most of our films suffer from casting. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
Women have initiated the change all by themselves. The credit goes to them. Men have had no role to play in the rise in… — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
I have been thinking of many subjects to work around football, but nothing has inspired me. 'Sports' is a good subject. But, nothing has… — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
I don't spend unnecessarily. The problem with the industry is we don't budget our films. Plus, we spend bizarre amounts on marketing. If you… — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
You can never understand why people do stupid things for love, Unless you, yourself experience how it is to be in LOVE... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The magi, as you know, were wise men — wonderfully wise men — who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
