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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

Comedy is tragedy plus timing.
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Comedy Timing Tragedy
I don’t think the sketch on its own is a great sketch.
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Own Sketch Thinking
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
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
If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am “somewhat fun.”
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Darkness Fun Surround
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’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
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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Clever Ideas Sticks
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.
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Independent Thinking Years
I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.
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Interesting Television Thinking
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.
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Fun Ideas Watches
You’re not just a part of the team. You’re really in charge, and the responsibility falls on you if all the components aren’t there for a worthwhile film.
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Player Responsibility Team Worthwhile
The world needs less destruction.
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Destruction Needs World
It’s nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.
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Independent Nice Taken
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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Home Kids Night
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
We don’t feel constrained by what we did in the past.
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Constraints Feels Past
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.
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Enough Kevin Stories
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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Envy Good Jobs Living Stupid
I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves.
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Everybody Persona Thinking
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
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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Issue Thinking Zero
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
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
My daughter got me a ‘World’s Best Dad’ mug. So we know she’s sarcastic.
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Dad Daughter Sarcastic
The worst thing is to read bad reviews and go, “Yeah, I agree.”
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Reviews Worst Yeah

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