"The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations."

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Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2011.

Richard Ayoade

#Character Quotes #Talking Quotes #Two Quotes

“Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.”
“My bedroom is so messy, if I died of natural causes, the cops would be like no he didn't, clearly there was a struggle.”
“If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.”
“I wouldn't do the 'Magic Hour' again, but I would do TV again. The 'Magic Hour' is not me. Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.”
“There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.”
“If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.”
“American children are the heaviest worldwide, and they are getting heavier at a faster rate than other children around the globe. This spread of obesity foreshadows an explosion in degenerative diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer waiting to erupt in our children's future. Together we can stop this tragedy from ever happening.”
“I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'”

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