With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing up and there's another actor on the call sheet; you're very attached to it.
From Alia Shawkat
The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.
It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.
I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.
The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.
We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.
We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show.
When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.
Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.
I was a late bloomer.
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