Top 98 Zucker Quotes
#1. 'Scary Movie' was a different type of comedy than I'm used to. I've mostly done sitcoms, so working with David Zucker, who wrote the film and who directed the last two 'Scary Movie's and 'Airplane' and 'Naked Gun,' was a lot of help.
Ashley Tisdale
#2. As David Zucker watched the casket of his late wife being lowered into the ground, he thought the worst must surely be over and it was time to start the slow healing process to begin life anew.
Phil Wohl
#3. IF INDEED THESE VARIOUS ATTACKS IN DIFFERENT STATES ARE LINKED, then we're dealing with a set of highly complex ritual behaviors," said Dr. Lawrence Zucker. A criminal psychologist who served as consultant to Boston PD,
Tess Gerritsen
#4. I love 'Airplane,' the 'Naked Gun' films; everything the Zucker brothers have done is just awesome.
Drake Bell
#5. To me, Jeff Zucker is synonymous with winning. He's an incredible news executive.
Soledad O'Brien
#6. Medicine I know. you tell me what a pulsar is and I'll tell you whatever you need to know about the organ of Zucker-kandl.
Sulu made a polite scoffing noise and explained anyway, ...
Janet Kagan
#7. Even if a poem is beautiful and memorable, it's not like an advertising jingle or propaganda, which attempt to convince and control. Poems seek to confuse, disabuse, enlarge understanding, and make people ask questions and think for themselves.
Rachel Zucker
#8. 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
#10. as I travel the city / hating poetry & my haircut & all the things I do not / want to do
Rachel Zucker
#11. More traffic means more advertising dollars.
Jeff Zucker
#12. When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think.
Rachel Zucker
#13. 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
#14. I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.
Rachel Zucker
#15. CNBC is a very serious-minded financial news network, and what we've seen thus far from Fox appears to be not as investment-focused or financially focused, and that's good for us.
Jeff Zucker
#16. 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
#17. It's a growing trend. Viewers are our customers, but so are advertisers. And advertisers want different ways to reach our viewers.
Jeff Zucker
#18. I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.
Rachel Zucker
#19. I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.
Rachel Zucker
#20. Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.
Rachel Zucker
#21. Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.
Rachel Zucker
#22. We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.
Jeff Zucker
#23. a woman with young children is not a woman but a mammal, salve, croon, water carrier
Rachel Zucker
#24. 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
#25. Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.
Rachel Zucker
#26. Autism was, and would long remain, a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder.
Caren Zucker
#27. 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
#28. My greatest thrill was the day Mad magazine spoofed 'Ghost.'
Jerry Zucker
#29. I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.
Rachel Zucker
#30. I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.
Rachel Zucker
#31. I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.
Rachel Zucker
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.
David Zucker
#36. My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, 'Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this?'
Jerry Zucker
#37. I have no lover, not even my love.
I have no other, not even I.
Rachel Zucker
#38. Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.
Rachel Zucker
#39. Local television is a slightly different story. It is under much more pressure in the same way that all local businesses are, whether that's a local newspaper, local radio or local television. But I think television in the aggregate is actually in very good shape.
Jeff Zucker
#40. I think humor and terror are very closely related.
Rachel Zucker
#41. I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.
Rachel Zucker
#42. 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
#43. The most frustrating thing is that I want to always buy the best thing, the thing that does the most stuff.
Jerry Zucker
#44. My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.
Rachel Zucker
#45. 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
#46. In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.
Rachel Zucker
#47. I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.
Rachel Zucker
#48. 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
#49. It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.
Jeff Zucker
#50. People are looking for original content in many different places, as are advertisers. This takes us into a whole new ballgame.
Jeff Zucker
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. All those zany comedies have instilled a sense of pace in me.
Jerry Zucker
#54. I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.
Rachel Zucker
#55. I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.
Rachel Zucker
#56. 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
#57. The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.
Jeff Zucker
#58. SUNLIGHT SEEPED THROUGH the thickly-bunched leaves of the towering kirstal trees, the clearing beneath them riddled with chaotic patches of brilliant light and gray shadow.
Mickey Zucker Reichert
#59. I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.
Rachel Zucker
#60. I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.
Rachel Zucker
#61. I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts.
Jeff Zucker
#62. 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
#63. I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.
Jeff Zucker
#64. I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.
Jeff Zucker
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#70. I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing.
Rachel Zucker
#71. I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.
Rachel Zucker
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.
Jerry Zucker
#75. We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important.
David Zucker
#76. It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.
Rachel Zucker
#77. One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.
Rachel Zucker
#78. 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
#79. Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him.
Jeff Zucker
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. The cable model is just a better model. Dual revenue stream: advertising-supported and subscription-supported revenues.
Jeff Zucker
#84. I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.
Rachel Zucker
#85. Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
David Zucker
#86. Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.
Rachel Zucker
#87. 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
#88. Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.
Rachel Zucker
#89. I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.
Rachel Zucker
#90. It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!
Jerry Zucker
#91. I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.
Rachel Zucker
#92. Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.
Rachel Zucker
#93. I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.
Rachel Zucker
#94. I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.
Rachel Zucker
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. People keep asking if I believe in ghosts. If you're talking about poltergeists and weird, supernatural phenomena, not really.
Jerry Zucker
#98. I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.
Jerry Zucker
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