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When you envy actors, only envy them for their good roles. Keep in mind they have to do a lot of roles to make a living, and not all of them are good.

Bob Odenkirk

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.
BOB ODENKIRK

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.
BOB ODENKIRK

Actors Done Use
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
When they’re doing a stupid role in a bad production, it’s kind of a dumb thing to do when you’re an adult. When you’re doing a great role that’s well-written, it’s an enviable job.
BOB ODENKIRK

Enviable Job Production Role
It’s nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.
BOB ODENKIRK

Independent Nice Taken
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.
BOB ODENKIRK

Comedy Complex Enough Happening Tell
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
The world needs less destruction.
BOB ODENKIRK

Destruction Needs World
When you envy actors, only envy them for their good roles. Keep in mind they have to do a lot of roles to make a living, and not all of them are good.
BOB ODENKIRK

Envy Good Jobs Living Stupid
I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves.
BOB ODENKIRK

Everybody Persona Thinking
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
I pursue those kinds of ideas more. The world needs less destruction. And destruction is kind of “easy,” too.
BOB ODENKIRK

Destructive More Needs Objective
You shouldn’t eat red meat, but you shouldn’t make resolutions you can’t keep.
BOB ODENKIRK

Meat Red Resolution
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.
BOB ODENKIRK

Home Kids Night
I don’t think the sketch on its own is a great sketch.
BOB ODENKIRK

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

Constraints Feels Past

When you envy actors, only envy them for their good roles. Keep in mind they have to do a lot of roles to make a living, and not all of them are good.

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When you envy actors, only envy them for their good roles. Keep in mind they have to do a lot of roles to make a living, and not all of them are good.

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