Daily Inspiration Quote by Danny DeVito

DeVito’s charm here is how aggressively un-grand he is about making art. The sentence is practically a shrug with a microphone: a stack of hedges ("well", "you know", "I feel like") that lowers the stakes before he lands on the real engine of the project: it made him laugh. In an era where every movie is packaged as a “statement,” this is a small act of rebellion. He’s not denying meaning; he’s refusing to perform meaning on command.

The key move is the pivot from “about a lot of things” to “the reason that I made it.” That’s intent versus interpretation. He nods politely to the idea that audiences and critics will find themes, then quietly asserts authorship: the motive was comedy, novelty, and genre-bending. “Funny and unique” isn’t just taste; it’s a defense of the oddball. DeVito has built a career on characters and projects that thrive in the margins, where the grotesque and the tender share a frame. “Different genre” reads like code for not easily marketable, not cleanly prestige, not designed to survive a focus-group.

There’s subtext, too, about the cultural climate around filmmaking. Press junkets train artists to sell their work as moral nutrition. DeVito sidesteps that script, suggesting that laughter and weirdness are sufficient artistic reasons. It’s a reminder that originality often starts as a private giggle, not a manifesto, and that “about a lot of things” can be true without being the point.