Some actors pride themselves on disappearing into a role. I'm into the game because I like experiencing and exploring themes, so I put a lot of myself into the person. — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
It's a really weird feeling when you write something and you really know it and then you watch actors come in and do it. — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share
Everybody has their different tastes with television - there are some characters people like, some characters people hate. — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share
I like to move quickly. I don't like the nature of television of just sitting around and overshooting. — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share
I've always been, in games, the bad guy. If there was ever cops and robbers I was always a robber. — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share
The craziest thing about TV directing is I turned in a version, and then they made their final changes - so I don't know… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share
If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share
Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish. And my level of fear and anxiety… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share
If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You do something… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share
I don't have an interest in being a director-for-hire on sitcoms - but if it's a really cool show that I thought I could… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share
I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real. — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share
I was in a two-person show [with Oliver Ralli] called the Midwesterners where we wrote all of our own stuff and we traveled the… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share
There are a lot of comedic actors who are just out to be the funny one and get all the laughs and they'll sacrifice… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share
We didn't make money but we never lost money. We'd sit around Times Square with fliers, walk around the Village and try and get… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share
