Ian Hislop Quotations

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

I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

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

I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

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

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.