Scott Aukerman Quotes
You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start chasing and the rest of their shows suffer. Because the experimentation that made the X-Files a show is all of the sudden lost.
Quotes to Explore
-
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
-
It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
-
On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
-
I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
-
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
-
I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
-
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
-
When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
-
Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
-
I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
-
I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
-
The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
-
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
-
I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
-
Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy.
-
I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
-
I don't need to impress children.
-
You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
-
I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.
-
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
-
All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.
-
Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.
-
Singing is a prayer to me.
-
You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start chasing and the rest of their shows suffer. Because the experimentation that made the X-Files a show is all of the sudden lost.
