Jason Gann Quotes
British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
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I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.
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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
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The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.
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I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
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You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
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Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
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With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.
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I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.
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In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.
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Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
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I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
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My mother raised me as a vegetarian, but when I turned 18, I decided to expand my palate.
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It wasn't until 2013 that I even started working in film. It was always something I wanted to do from six, but I didn't know how to get there other than working really hard and going to New York and doing theater like I saw on the bios of some of my favorite actors.
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I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.
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I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science.
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Drawing and Drinking Coffee.
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British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.
