Paul Provenza Quotes (18 Quotes)

If you can handle some raw language, come on in, and have a great time with us. To each his own.

This is a look at a particular world of artists, and when it comes to words, well, that's our currency. In terms of mindset, we'll entertain almost any idea. We're trying to be creative. There's nothing about any given word that's better or worse than other given word. A word is a word.

Though it's justified because they're a private company, it's also based on hypocrisy because AMC showed Irreversible, which basically has a 15-minute scene of violent anal rape, so what about that

There are a lot of movies out there for you, but there is room on the shelf for something that's free and liberating as well, ... If you don't like dirty jokes, if you don't like rough language, I highly recommend the penguin movie because they dress really nicely.

If you've ever been offended by any particular word, you'll probably hear it 100 times in this movie.

We didn't shoot it like a real movie, ... We never set up lights, we didn't do anything elaborate with sound, we never did makeup or anything like that, because every time something like that happens, it's another layer of artifice.

We met at the free clinic. She's there three times a week.

How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances,

Chappelle, who loved the joke, could never make time to film. The directors were lucky enough to catch Chris Rock backstage, with camera in hand. As for the venerable Richard Pryor, Every comedian in America wishes they were Richard Pryor, ... We could hear him laughing and coughing in the background.

Johnny can't gain his composure, Ed McMahon is doing his characteristic bull moose guffaw, the band -- the instruments are banging into one another -- the audience is in tears, and every time Johnny would try to gain his composure, he would look at Buddy and it would start all over again.

Gary is awesome, he's amazing, ... The music in the movie alludes to jazz, bebop and pop but has an improvisational feel and he did an amazing job with just a few minutes.

He was a huge champion of the idea and a big cheerleader for the movie, and this is where it gets heartbreaking, ... We were supposed to bring it over to his house and screen it for him right after Sundance, and he died while we were at Sundance.

The film also speaks to a worldview comedians have a bond like no other. The thing that makes an individual feel odd and outcast in the real world is what makes them special and important among comedians. If the rest of the world championed and encouraged individuality we'd all stop being so self-loathing and fearful of each other, and all get along a hell of a lot better. And I bet we'd all laugh more, too.

The joke is the comedy equivalent of jazz. It's raunchy, it's free of constraints, yet has a simple 'melody' to hold on to. It's about where you take it, not where it's going. If that is not a workable definition of art, I don't know what is.

I was surprised how deeply that affected us. Every comedian will say Johnny was just the biggest influence on their life.

Everybody did an amazing job of letting their hair down and being fearless,

He has a rich history with this joke. This joke was his favorite joke in the world,

We don't judge anybody if they're offended, we're just having a good time,