Apr 6
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- You don’t want to try to recreate something you’ve already done.
- I pretty much choose anything I do in life based on whether or not I can work in my PJs. Certainly one of the perks of doing an animated film is that you don’t have to go and get ready and wear wardrobe, and you just show up in whatever you’re wearing.
- I’m not necessarily interested in telling the story of people who are super likable.
- The thing I always try to hold onto with ‘BoJack’ and with ‘Flaked’ is that maybe there is a sliver of hope that they are going to turn it around. They are just having a tough time getting there. And that’s the thing with ‘BoJack’ — he is obviously depressed.
- You meet lots of people in your life, and sometimes you think that people are a certain way, and then they reveal themselves to be a different way.
- Any kind of run-of-the-mill flaws that are easily solved, to me, are boring. Situational flaws, for example. I like flaws that are rooted in a deep distrust in people because of a lack of love.
- What came out of ‘The LEGO Movie’ was the idea of ‘Batman’s the Dark Knight’, so why is he so moody? What’s going on? Why is he so banged up? And wouldn’t it be fun to get in there and explore that?
- My definition of family is just unconditional love. The people who rely on you and who love you, they are there, too.
- My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don’t know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.
- I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.
- Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV… You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that’s not what you wanted to do, then it wasn’t going to be for you, and that’s OK.
- I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.
- It’s very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.
- This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read — and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.
- Well, we were never coming back to Fox… that was clear.
- Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately — and this isn’t the first time I’ve said this, so I’ll bore you again with it — but ultimately it was… I think it felt like homework a bit for people.
- Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.
- Well, no, I didn’t because I didn’t even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn’t even on my radar. I hadn’t… I hadn’t even thought about it.
- It doesn’t look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you’re gonna take a hit from a… from sort of a public relations standpoint.
- Any time you can build jokes around a story that resonates on an emotional level, it is going to have a big impact.
