KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

David Dobkin Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by David Dobkin

Showing 1-10 of 13 Quotes by David Dobkin

I honestly never thought in my career I was going to do a body-switching movie.

~David Dobkin

Topics: Career Going Honestly Movie Never Thought

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I believe comedy should be free to go anywhere. I believe that there is tasteful and untasteful, I think they're very close to each other, and it's how you handle it tonally. But I'm an equal opportunity offender.

~David Dobkin

Topics: Anywhere Believe Close Comedy Each Equal Equal Opportunity Free Go Handle How Opportunity Other Should Tasteful Think Very You I Think I Believe I Believe That

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm very comfortable with an R-rating. I feel like it sounds like what people talk like in real life; I think it's more real to me.

~David Dobkin

Topics: Comfortable Feel Life Like Me More People Real Real Life Sounds Talk Think Very I Think I Feel I Feel Like

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.

~David Dobkin

Topics: Bruce Comedy Eddie Eddie Murphy Favorites Filmmaker Lenny Love Murphy Pryor Richard Richard Pryor Side Those I Love

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I watch comedy on TV, and it's too cutty for me. I get a little jarred, and it succeeds. It's not like it's not working, and I look at certain things, and it has the cutting... it's not like I'd make terribly different cuts, but for some reason, it moves too fast for me.

~David Dobkin

Topics: Certain Certain Things Comedy Cuts Cutting Different Fast Get Like Little Look Make Me Moves Reason Some Succeeds Terribly Things Too Tv Watch Working

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Art is the only thing that can save me from my opinions about the world. I tend to get very worked up about what I see going on, and I feel, you know, impotent to make the kind of changes and the kind of difference that I would like to make.

~David Dobkin

Topics: About Art Changes Difference Feel Get Going Kind Know Like Make Me Only Opinions Save See Tend The Only Thing Thing Up Very Worked World Would You I See I Feel

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Laughter is really a gift. It's the most vulnerable state you can be in.

~David Dobkin

Topics: Gift Laughter Most Really State Vulnerable You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will stop reading because it's just too much of a time commitment. But you never know with a movie what's going to turn around.

~David Dobkin

Topics: Around Because Book Commitment Films Generally Going Just Know Love Movie Much Never Out Page Reading Start Stop Time Too Too Much Turn Walk Will You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I do believe in God. I don't believe in God as a person, but I believe in God as a state of energy and consciousness that we all share.

~David Dobkin

Topics: Believe Consciousness Energy God Person Share State I Believe I Believe In

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.

~David Dobkin

Topics: As Far As Been Far Funny Never Tell Will I Can

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: June 23rd, 1969

Links

Find David Dobkin on Amazon

Related Authors

Woody Allen
Tim Burton
James Cameron
Stanley Kubrick
George Lucas
David Lynch
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino

Popular Authors

Maya Angelou Arthur Ashe Nuno Bettencourt Winston Churchill Ernest Hemingway D. H. Lawrence John Stuart Mill Rabindranath Tagore

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Birthday Car Faith Fitness Friendship Inspirational New Year's Work