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 ODENKIRKIt’s nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.
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We don’t feel constrained by what we did in the past.
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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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Comedy is tragedy plus timing.
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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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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.
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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.
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It’s nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.
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The worst thing is to read bad reviews and go, “Yeah, I agree.”
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You shouldn’t eat red meat, but you shouldn’t make resolutions you can’t keep.
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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.
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I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.
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The world needs less destruction.
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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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I don’t think the sketch on its own is a great sketch.
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I pursue those kinds of ideas more. The world needs less destruction. And destruction is kind of “easy,” too.
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