David S. Zucker Quotes

• You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Better

• Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Think, Like, Excellent

• What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it’s good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they’ll read what you have.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good

• We’re producing a movie now, ‘The Onion’ Movie, and it’s very difficult for me to be on the set. If I’m not right in the trenches, it’s very difficult for me to watch another director, because I’m not involved and it’s not exciting.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Producing

• We didn’t realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Important

• Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it’s the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Think

• There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years – that’s why we’re not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conflicts

• The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn’t want any comedians.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Comedian

• Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there’s a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Original

• So, it didn’t do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they’re surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that’s what happens.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Kids

• Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Advice

• Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn’t think they were that great. I didn’t think it was worth putting them in.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Producer

• Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Movie

• Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there’s much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn’t. I don’t believe that Mother Theresa and Hitler go to the same place.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in God, Mother

  Tags in Believe

• It’s useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Positive

• It didn’t happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn’t get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Time, Good, Marketing

• I’ve always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Funny, Love

• I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I’d have to do is just turn the camera on and off.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Love, Work

• I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That’s what inspired us.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Think, Like

• I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early ’70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Political

David S. Zucker (30)

Birth:	16th October, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

David S. Zucker is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Zucker was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Charlotte and Burton Zucker, who was a real estate developer. He graduated from Shorewood High School. Zucker is married to Dr. Danielle Zucker, with whom he has two children, Charles and Sarah. His younger brother, Jerry, is his filmmaking partner. The Zucker brothers have a sister, Susan Breslau.

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