10 Quotes by Jonathan Lynn

It's a matter of life after death, now that he's dead I have a life.

I haven't got a gun you homicidal pillock!

So what's the problem?’‘No problem. There's no problem. Don't ever say what's the problem, nthat's the negative way of looking at things, you know like is the bottle half empty or half full, know what I mean, every problem is also an opportunity, the question here is what opportunity does this present us with?’‘It seems to me’, said Ernest stubbornly, ‘that this opportunity presents us with a problem. Is there a director that Virginia would like?

Though I thought there weren't any words any more, only fucking signifiers. And since texts have no objective univocal meaning, I feel sure that when I call you a bunch of moronic cunts you will be able to decode that sequence of sequential signifiers with the appropriate emancipated subjectivity.

If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

Stalin didn’t write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

He that would keep a secret must keep it secret that he hath a secret to keep.

Civil servants have an extraordinary genius for wrapping up a simple idea to make it sound extremely complicated.

You’ve only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even giving you today’s date with any accuracy!