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Life's struggle can be both funny and tragic, and the speaker wants to tell that truth in movies. They talk about making films on a phone and focusing on everyday people dealing with hard situations. The aim is to spark specific feelings while remembering that passion projects often stall.

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The hard part about getting much attention is that people start dissecting what you do.

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People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

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It's funny when people debate about music, because they get so passionate about what they enjoy.

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So many people are in comedy because of difficult mothers or broken homes.

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I'm just trying to be truthful and collaborate with people who have interesting things to say.

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I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.

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Every time I perform in front of people, no matter how well it goes, the next day, I feel humiliated.

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And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie…

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I've come to believe that the simpler the title, the better. Whenever I try to get cute with it, it seems to…

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Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.

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People talk about universal intelligence ... I'm reticent to believe almost anything, just because my parents weren't religious at all, but that's…

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I think it's fun to have people see everything at once, and then I think certain shows are very well-suited to being…

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I love when people work together who know each other very well. Some of my favourite movies are people who are close…

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I like to make movies the way people made movies in the '70s, where they lived and died with these stories, and…

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I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story,…

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You hear people say: "One day, when I'm in a good position I can make my passion project." I've seen a lot…

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In my beginnings, those nos were ever-present-even today, those nos are ever-present-and it's the workaround. I always found a workaround for people…

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When I was very young, I started to make friends with much, much older people. So when I was twenty, my friends…

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Something economically changed. It used to be that you needed 20 million people to watch a TV show for it to be…

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Penn [Jillette] and Teller and I get along very well. We can call each other and say, "I'm working on this classic…

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I think there have been so many documentaries about pop stars, made by pop stars. It's a new phenomenon. People making these…

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I've made movies on every part of the spectrum, and you do understand when you go into certain movies that you're trying…

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I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way…

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Back then, you seemed like a crazy person when you were trying to push the boundaries of network TV. People looked at…

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The only thing I knew in the world as a little kid was comedy. And no other kids in my school cared…

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With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism.

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Most people in the world of comedy at least are multi-hyphenates, so people who direct are also writers.

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For a long time, TV was just the land of handsome, beautiful people, and now it's the opposite.

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I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day…

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The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a…

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In the writing, I'm just trying to go deeper, emotionally, and learn more about myself and reveal more and find a way…

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I need to find people who I respect so I can respect them, and they'll like being respected so they'll respect me,…

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I like human comedies - or dramedies. More than anything, I'm interested in people just dealing with everyday things that are difficult,…

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I like working with people on their first movies. I think that you never get that level of effort again. And I…

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People like everything to work out, and anytime you don't make everything work out perfectly, you really are fighting against what most…

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There's no logic in how Donald Trump thinks. I don't want someone who's the president who says 3 to 5 million people…

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Some people make movies and think, "Well, I'll just keep asking for more money if this isn't enough." And then there are…

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People are disappearing from movies, and normal human behaviour is disappearing from movies... You are not always fighting a creature in life.…

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Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only…

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Just trying to tell the truth about, you know, the struggle of - being alive is funny, it's just inherently tragic and…

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Just trying to tell the truth about, you know, the struggle of - being alive is funny, it's just inherently tragic and also hilarious…

I feel like everybody's waiting for a job y'know, you can make a movie on your phone. And so there really is no reason…

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

I like human comedies - or dramedies. More than anything, I'm interested in people just dealing with everyday things that are difficult, and there…

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It's so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around…

I've made movies on every part of the spectrum, and you do understand when you go into certain movies that you're trying to elicit…

I love the Lonely Island. I wish there was more Lonely Island movies.

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

People talk about universal intelligence ... I'm reticent to believe almost anything, just because my parents weren't religious at all, but that's when I…

You can work on a movie for years, and you won't know until you show it to an audience for the first time if…

I literally cannot remember one joke.

You hear people say: "One day, when I'm in a good position I can make my passion project." I've seen a lot of people…

If we really talked about what's wrong with you, you'd need a 7-1/2-hour movie and nobody would know what category to put it in!