Michael O'Donoghue Quotations

The true essence of comedy is a baby seal hunt.

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.

Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything about that. We had an ending.

I am Hollywood's hottest young, middle-aged director, but I'll write out of New York because I don't want to become a salad head. That's what you become out there: a guacamole dip.

It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

I try to attack all races and creeds, except the Irish. Clearly they are closest to the angels and don't deserve abuse. But the others have it coming.

Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.

Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.

Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.

Sometimes you have to be cruel... in order to be even crueler.

A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.

Any good humor is sophomoric. 'Sophomoric' is the liberal word for funny.

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

I think therapy interferes with the creative process. It takes off the edge.

One of my problems is I am getting so mature that I have to pick up a TV and toss it through the coffee table just to remind people of who I am. I want to go ranting and screaming into the grave.

We're using the science fiction cliches of the 1950s to set the mind off in a certain direction, then sabotage it with a surprise.

They just have a feel about them. And you feel your way through them and you come out with something that's very powerful and mythic. And you don't quite know how you got there. I think this story has a lot of those elements.

Amazing products, cats. And real simple to manufacture.

It's an end of the world I guess. I guess you'd currently call it disaster movie. But really they weren't disaster movies. They were more end of the world movies. This is more an end of the world movie.

It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.

The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature.

If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

Licorice is the liver of candy.

I don’t think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen’s head to explode.

Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life?

Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.

You only live once and, usually, not even then.

Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.