Todd Solondz Quotes
I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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I've been in relationships where we've said 'I love you' after two weeks.
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.
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When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.
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My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
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Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.
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There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
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I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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Sweating the small stuff is important in boxing and life. On a movie, we have production assistants who're 18 and 19 years old. If someone asks you for a cup of coffee, and you bring them a cup of coffee that's cold, I make a big deal of that. I make a really, really big deal of that. You have to pay attention to details.
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I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.
