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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

I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it’s become very corporate, the independent scene.
BOB ODENKIRK

Independent Thinking Years
I don’t think the sketch on its own is a great sketch.
BOB ODENKIRK

Own Sketch Thinking
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.
BOB ODENKIRK

Guy Play Prosthetics Years
I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves.
BOB ODENKIRK

Everybody Persona Thinking
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.
BOB ODENKIRK

Enough Kevin Stories
Comedy is tragedy plus timing.
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Comedy Timing Tragedy
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.
BOB ODENKIRK

Actors Done Use
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.
BOB ODENKIRK

Important Real Skills
If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am “somewhat fun.”
BOB ODENKIRK

Darkness Fun Surround
The worst thing is to read bad reviews and go, “Yeah, I agree.”
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Reviews Worst Yeah
The world needs less destruction.
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Destruction Needs World
The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that’s a cool thing. I don’t think it’s exploded or anything, but I think it’s pretty cool that it still exists, it’s still affecting people.
BOB ODENKIRK

Couple Taken Thinking
We don’t feel constrained by what we did in the past.
BOB ODENKIRK

Constraints Feels Past
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.
BOB ODENKIRK

Issue Thinking Zero
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
You shouldn’t eat red meat, but you shouldn’t make resolutions you can’t keep.
BOB ODENKIRK

Meat Red Resolution

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.

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