"I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high."

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Source : "Q&A with “Horrible Bosses” director Seth Gordon". Interview with Mandy Stadtmiller, nypost.com. July 3, 2011.

Seth Gordon

#Character Quotes #Stories Quotes #Comedy Quotes

“Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.”
“As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.”

Source : Draft of a preface in "Notebook 16". "The Collected Works of J.M. Synge", Volume 1. Introduction, 1962.
“You didn't beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!”
“Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.”
“Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.”
“I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.”
“The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.”
“Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.”

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