Armando Iannucci Quotations

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

What's funny about that office is it's entirely dependent on how close you are to the president, because the president decides what your role will be. If you get on with the president, that's great; if you fall out with the president, power can go away.

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

I kind of like that thing of you being caught up. You think you can judge someone, and before you know it, you've been swayed by them, and actually you want more of them.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.

Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of.