Mockumentary Quotes

#1. Mockumentary formats are great for a couple of things. One of them is delivering the toughest part of any sitcom episode, what writers call "pipe" - the nuts and bolts of the story where you explain what's happening, the boring plot stuff.

Michael Schur

#2. My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.

Issa Rae

#3. That's what I love about the mockumentary style, is the added thing of people knowing they are on-camera, which changes your behavior. That's why we sometimes do what we call spy shots.

Paul Feig

#4. There are people who think the film 'This Is Spinal Tap' is simply a very funny 'mockumentary.' Well, with Yes, we lived it. Take the hilarious scene in the film in which the bass player is trapped in a giant pod - that actually happened to Alan one night.

Rick Wakeman

#5. Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

Michael Moore

#6. I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

Emma Roberts

#7. Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.

Margaret Mead

#8. The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

Moshe Dayan

#9. Whenever you become aware of a conflict in the world, realize that you only perceive it as a conflict because it resonates with something that's already inside of you.

Auliq Ice

#10. The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons.

Scott Walker

#11. the group, the herd, which is any collection of children

John Steinbeck

#12. Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.

Daniel D. Palmer

#13. The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#14. Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.

Arthur Rock

#15. Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.

Louis Farrakhan

#16. You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.

Daoud Hari

#17. Those beautiful words we said to one another are hidden in the secret heart of heaven. One day, like the rain, they will pour our love story all over the world.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#18. Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off. But by recruiting locally and developing homegrown talent, companies can build something that remains after they're gone. People, skills and a culture of innovation persist.

Ryan Holmes

#19. Seek to give much
expect nothing.

Jonathan Goforth