#r

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#amazing #because #films #good #i

I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#age #always #am #around #assumed

I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#being #i #often #opposite #true

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. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#after #another #bars #conducted #getting

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#best #comedy #strong #weak #where

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#could #got #i #lot #mostly

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#cut #i #perfect #sore #throat

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#end #established #good #good thing #in the end

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#any #everyone #given #lawyers #libel

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#british #eccentric #fat #longer #politics