The scariest thing about screening a comedy if you screen a drama, you know, there’s no real way to tell in real time if people are enjoying it or not. But in a comedy, it’s like, if people aren’t laughing, it’s sort of scary.
When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.
On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It’s just not the way we really behave.
There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.
My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom’s very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.
I think the great sketch shows, like ‘Python’ and ‘Mr. Show,’ they didn’t stick around for very long. There’s something kind of cool about that.
There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.
When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.
I think, you know, I’m German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.
Dads are awkward because they’re older guys who aren’t cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.
Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.
Well, I love Bob Dylan, let’s make that clear. He’s one of my musical heroes.
I’m a little bit of an amateur political junkie.
I think there’s a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.
I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.
There’s a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.
When anything doesn’t hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we’re sinking.
When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.
I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn’t go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.
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