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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.

Bob Odenkirk

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

Independent Nice Taken
You shouldn’t eat red meat, but you shouldn’t make resolutions you can’t keep.
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Meat Red Resolution
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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Guy Play Prosthetics Years
The world needs less destruction.
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Destruction Needs World
And oftentimes people do have good drives that are sympathetic and can even be seen as selfless and good-hearted.
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Good Hearted Selfishness Sympathetic
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
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
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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Actors Done Use
I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves.
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Everybody Persona Thinking
Comedy is tragedy plus timing.
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Comedy Timing Tragedy
We don’t feel constrained by what we did in the past.
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Constraints Feels Past
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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Important Real Skills
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.
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Hands Independent Real
I pursue those kinds of ideas more. The world needs less destruction. And destruction is kind of “easy,” too.
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Destructive More Needs Objective
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.
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Enviable Job Production Role
If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am “somewhat fun.”
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Darkness Fun Surround

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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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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