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When I got 'Youth,' I also got a small role in 'Star Wars.' I didn't know what to do. I decided to choose based on the character.
As a director, you want to work with great writers.
For me, my mythology growing up was 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark' and 'Star Wars' and 'E.T.' and 'Ghostbusters.' That's what I grew up on, and there aren't many people who can write that kind of scale of story, stories that are that big.
I've seen a lot of zombie films as a teenager, and I think teens in general, or teen boys, watch a lot of horror. There's a lot of morbidity that goes on in that age.
Science fiction is boring when someone starts explaining the science to me.
The best thing as a director is being able to be part of the thing that's so cool about a TV show, like running a character arc over six episodes or multiple series.
The vision people have of a director is completely flawed - someone with a crystalline vision of everything they're going to do. How boring would that be? It's a creative and collaborative process.
There's a funny thing that, in film now, everybody thinks that the director does everything, and in TV, everybody thinks that the writer does everything, and I'm quite comfortable with that as a director. I don't mind that.
As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.
Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.
I'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.
My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.
The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.
A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.
A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.
All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.
Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.
Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.
For me, comedy should have a certain amount of joy in it. It should be about attacking the powerful - the politicians, the Trumps, the blowhards - going after them. We shouldn't be attacking the vulnerable.
HD doesn't mean anything to me. It's a technical thing. It's like demographics. A lot of people know about it.
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