Quotes by David Zucker - Page 1

Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
David Zucker / Film Director
Advice
Disregard
Halfway
Now
Make
Quit
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I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.
David Zucker / Film Director
Love
Dumb
Guy
Mary
Stupid
Funny Love Always
Guys
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We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important.
David Zucker / Film Director
Dating
Important
Release
Release Date
Ad
Ad Campaign
Campaign
Date
Poster
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I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off.
David Zucker / Film Director
Love
Adam
Cameras
Love Work Because
Adam Sandler
Camera
On And Off
Sandler
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Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.
David Zucker / Film Director
Big Fish
Hands
Impressed
Thinking
Underrated
Years
Fish
Best Hands Down
Tim
Tim Burton
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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 a better actor, I thought, with every movie.
David Zucker / Film Director
Lines
Nice Guy
Better Actor
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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 smart humor was political satire.
David Zucker / Film Director
Business
Smart
Thinking
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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 blew the opening.
David Zucker / Film Director
Good Movie
Marketing
Opening
People
Release
Ruthless
Time Good People
Blew
Every Time
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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 smart humor was political satire.
David Zucker / Film Director
Humor
Satire
Smart
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So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens.
David Zucker / Film Director
Box Office
Office
Seeing
Box
Failed
Surprised
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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 be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.
David Zucker / Film Director
Life
Believe
Depressing
Life God Believe
Prefer
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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 like Big Fish!
David Zucker / Film Director
Movie
Big Fish
Overlooked
Serious
Thinking
Woody
Allen
Currently
Fish
Crimes
Woody Allen
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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 Mother Theresa and Hitler go to the same place.
David Zucker / Film Director
Believe
Evidence
Mother
Theresa
Thinking
Yeah
God Believe I Believe
Oh Yeah
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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 wouldn't hold your breath for that one.
David Zucker / Film Director
Movie
Different
Different Kinds
Thinking
Want
Breath
Directing
Interests
Separately
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What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it's good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they'll read what you have.
David Zucker / Film Director
Video
Passed
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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 is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.
David Zucker / Film Director
Movie
Zero
Cockpit
Guy
Sterling
Thinking
Funny Time Movies
Hour
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Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.
David Zucker / Film Director
Bounds
Force
Little Bit
Mean
Steps
Trying
Original
Market
Step
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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 front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.
David Zucker / Film Director
Audience
Bigger
College
Cutting
Play
Anymore
College Campuses
Cut
Front
Laughs
Loosely
Plays
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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 is. There's always one guy who doesn't get it.
David Zucker / Film Director
Reviews
Totality
Reaction
Representative
Seriously
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There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three.
David Zucker / Film Director
Together
Two
Vote
Years
Anymore
Conflicts
Years And Years
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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! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian.
David Zucker / Film Director
Love
Airplane
Chevy
Comedian
Thinking
Bill
Bill Murray
Chase
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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 thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.
David Zucker / Film Director
Movie
Zero
Brother
Serious
Thinking
Brothers
Liked
Funniest
Hour
Laugh
Marx
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The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.
David Zucker / Film Director
Time
Gas
Jimmy
Mean
Play
Attendant
Comedians
Gas Station
Plays
Walker
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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 have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'
David Zucker / Film Director
Famous
Dave
People
Ran
Remember
Remember Me
Today
Famous People
Hi
Met
Tom
Tom Hanks
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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 thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.
David Zucker / Film Director
Guy
Rhyme
Thinking
Trying
Lately
Screened
Sees
Seriously
Thinks
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We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.
David Zucker / Film Director
Directors
Onions
Trenches
Watches
Onion
Producing
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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 get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.
David Zucker / Film Director
Business
Business Partners
Distribution
Father
Firm
Genre
Partners
Real
Commercials
Fathers
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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 scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it.
David Zucker / Film Director
Movie
Cutting
Example
Plot
Scary
Stuff
Too Much
Audiences
Cutting Room
Floor
For Example
Hold
Hear
Hulk
Lose
Matrix
Room
Scary Movie
Tons
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Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in.
David Zucker / Film Director
Ideas
Tape
Thinking
Would Be
Good Great Me
Additional
Jon
Watched
Good Idea
Producer
Putting
Sent
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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 this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.
David Zucker / Film Director
Business
Competent
Luck
Mean
People
Release
Ad
Experience Business People
Ad Campaign
Campaign
Component
Studio
Realized
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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 there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.
David Zucker / Film Director
Time
Sophistication
Successful
Theater
Thinking
Funny Time People
Attract
Concept
Three-Quarters
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