Jeff Baena famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.
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When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.
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My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.
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I had an approach where everything that's happening it should be as though it's an experience for somebody. So if you're experiencing a hurricane, if you're experiencing a car crash or whatever it is, you're only experiencing as yourself, you're not experiencing it from some objective point of view.
-- Jeff Baena
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In nature there are few sharp lines
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.
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Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
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I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.
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Let's blow some stuff up.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.
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The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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