16 quotes found
Screenwriter · American · 2009–2015
American screenwriter (born 1973)
“I've discovered a new video game called owning my home.”
“I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.”
“All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.”
“I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.”
“You can't tell the audience well, you can, but I don't like to tell the audience that anything they're watching doesn't matter.”
“If you like Dexter, you'll love Daryl, my new show about a baby rapist - with a HEART OF GOLD?! HUH?! Like Showtime, but freeeeeee!”
“Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and retur...”
“Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.”
“As humans, reality for us is largely based on other people's perceptions. If there's 20 bodies in your crawl space but you haven't been caught yet, you tell yourself you're still a birthday clown, ...”
“None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others ...”
“I'm always trying to gain and keep the audience's respect. I always want them to know that the show doesn't think they're stupid for watching.”
“Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.”
“My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.”
“Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.”
“Humankind made these religions; that our brains are capable of doing that is neither something to take too seriously because we also make poop, and we learned to flush that the fuck down the toile...”
“Rick and Morty is definitely the most freeing, most fun thing I’ve ever worked on. It’s had the biggest impact. I love everything I make—and hate it, I guess—but I have a very special relationship ...”