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I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves.

Bob Odenkirk

When you’re 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you’re 70 you can’t play a 20-year-old.
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Guy Play Prosthetics Years
If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am “somewhat fun.”
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Darkness Fun Surround
I pursue those kinds of ideas more. The world needs less destruction. And destruction is kind of “easy,” too.
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Destructive More Needs Objective
It’s nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.
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Independent Nice Taken
The worst thing is to read bad reviews and go, “Yeah, I agree.”
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Reviews Worst Yeah
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
I’m about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.
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Hands Independent Real
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
Comedy is tragedy plus timing.
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Comedy Timing Tragedy
You shouldn’t eat red meat, but you shouldn’t make resolutions you can’t keep.
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Meat Red Resolution
We don’t feel constrained by what we did in the past.
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Constraints Feels Past
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
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
You’re not just a part of the team. You’re really in charge, and the responsibility falls on you if all the components aren’t there for a worthwhile film.
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Player Responsibility Team Worthwhile
And oftentimes people do have good drives that are sympathetic and can even be seen as selfless and good-hearted.
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Good Hearted Selfishness Sympathetic

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