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If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am “somewhat fun.”

Bob Odenkirk

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

Independent Nice Taken
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
Comedy is tragedy plus timing.
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Comedy Timing Tragedy
I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.
BOB ODENKIRK

Interesting Television 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.
BOB ODENKIRK

Important Real Skills
We don’t feel constrained by what we did in the past.
BOB ODENKIRK

Constraints Feels Past
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 don’t think the sketch on its own is a great sketch.
BOB ODENKIRK

Own Sketch 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.
BOB ODENKIRK

Comedy Complex Enough Happening Tell
And oftentimes people do have good drives that are sympathetic and can even be seen as selfless and good-hearted.
BOB ODENKIRK

Good Hearted Selfishness Sympathetic
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.
BOB ODENKIRK

Fun Ideas Watches
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 fun to discover things. I wouldn’t want everything laid out, simply and too obviously.
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Everything Fun Obviously Want

If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am “somewhat fun.”

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