Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who’s your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
B. J. NOVAKGood comics gravitate to each other; you know who’s your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
B. J. NOVAKRegret is just perfectionism plus time.
B. J. NOVAKTravel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
B. J. NOVAKThe Office’ is less a comedy than so many other “comedies” that have been on the air. It’s really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
B. J. NOVAKIf you love something, let it go. If you don’t love something, definitely let it go. Basically, just drop everything, who cares.
B. J. NOVAKMindy Kaling gets her own line in the acknowledgments, as previously negotiated by her representatives. Thanks, Mindy. I love you and you’re the best.
B. J. NOVAKBattered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.
B. J. NOVAKDifferent people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
B. J. NOVAKThere’s not many good comedies to watch – you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
B. J. NOVAKIf people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can’t they be well paid for changing young minds?
B. J. NOVAKI do not have very much office experience.
B. J. NOVAKI wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
B. J. NOVAKIt’s not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.
B. J. NOVAKThe most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.
B. J. NOVAKI think it’s better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.
B. J. NOVAKNobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.
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