People are making better and better small budge independent films these days. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I love 'Bullets Over Broadway,' but I'm pretty sure Woody Allen hasn't killed somebody. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
One of my favourite movies is 'Annie Hall' because it's about the silver lining of the break-up. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I will say what I aspire to is a consistency in making films, to direct something every couple of years. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I was a screenwriting major in college, and really wanted to do that after I graduated, but there are no job listings… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Directing your first film is like showing up to the field trip in seventh grade, getting on the bus, and making an… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I just like, when you look at people who have long careers in film, they're able to make films that are far… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
In my twenties, I thought it was getting a sitcom. Then I got a sitcom pilot in my early thirties, and realized… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I thought if I could do stand-up comedy well enough, I could parlay it back into films - like Charlie Chaplin and… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
When I wrote the screenplay for 'Sleepwalk with Me,' I was imagining that another person would direct it. So I was using… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
The thing with film is that it's so wide-reaching compared to comedy. When I release my comedy special, half a million people… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Elia Kazan. He wrote my favorite book about filmmaking, 'Elia Kazan: On Directing.' There is a thing in the book that I… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal' and I… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share
My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting,… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share
I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share
It's interesting how sleepwalking in a certain way becomes an accumulation of your outside stimuli that's actually there and what's happening in your brain. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share
I went to the doctor, and they found something in my bladder. And whenever they find something, it's never anything good like, "We found… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share
Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong. Bears know who they are, but they often don’t know who you are, which is why… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share
Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share
When I met my wife, I was a working comic, so the first week we went out, she saw me perform, and it was… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share
I think because I've been working in front of audiences for so many years, I'm able to take in the input, good or bad,… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share
Directing your first film is like showing up to the field trip in seventh grade, getting on the bus, and making an announcement, 'So… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share
Media is so weird; everything is so accessible now. It used to be this thing where, if you did something on 'This American Life,'… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share
As artists, we'd all love to not be commercial - to not sell out to the full extent that we are able. But you… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share
