The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.
From Thomas Lennon
When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.
All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.
That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.
I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters.
It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.
The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.
There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice.
Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.
Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.
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