This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
From Ian Hislop
I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.
It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.
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