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The worst thing is to read bad reviews and go, “Yeah, I agree.”

Bob Odenkirk

In the end, the thing that really stays with you is not that you were clever enough to connect a sketch to another sketch, but what really sticks with you is when you just have an incredible moment happen, or execute a really funny idea.
BOB ODENKIRK

Clever Ideas Sticks
We’re all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you’re comedic or not.
BOB ODENKIRK

Honesty People Real
I pretty much read reviews and comments only looking for the negative. Literally, when I read positive comments, it’s like a zero. I think the issue is if you agree with it or not.
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Issue Thinking Zero
You shouldn’t eat red meat, but you shouldn’t make resolutions you can’t keep.
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Meat Red Resolution
If you’re committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.
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Enough Kevin Stories
Comedy can be destructive, and still very, very funny. But if I can do something that is fun to watch and critical of the world but not wantonly destructive.
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Fun Ideas Watches
If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am “somewhat fun.”
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Darkness Fun Surround
I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.
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Interesting Television Thinking
I’ve had enough of those short comedy bits. Tell me a story, tell me a more complex story, something that lasts and maybe has a little more meaning to it.’ Don’t ever look at what’s happening now; look at what’s coming next.
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Comedy Complex Enough Happening Tell
It’s nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.
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Independent Nice Taken
We don’t feel constrained by what we did in the past.
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Constraints Feels Past
It’s fun to discover things. I wouldn’t want everything laid out, simply and too obviously.
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Everything Fun Obviously Want
I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves.
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Everybody Persona Thinking
Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.
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Important Real Skills
I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I’m working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don’t really know.
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Home Kids Night
You get to use everything you learned in movie business. You talk to actors, if you do it right – and I haven’t always done it right – you should be shaping the material all the time.
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Actors Done Use

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