Dave McCary

Working on 'SNL,' you can have a really stressful experience or a really bad week, and I could see how much of…

— Dave McCary

It's unfortunate that it's not realistic that you can get people to come to a movie theater not knowing anything about the…

— Dave McCary

At 'SNL,' we don't have the luxury to perfect things. However a video turns out, that's what we have to present. There's…

— Dave McCary

I think of our YouTube experience very much like a gym. We were practicing and getting stronger with each rep.

— Dave McCary

Film is a very specific world in which I don't think you really need to go to film school.

— Dave McCary

Once I got into film, I was never like, 'I want to make comedies.'

— Dave McCary

Everybody has their own story or they've been shaped by their upbringing, and we have to love them for what that experience…

— Dave McCary

Even if I'm not having the best time in a social situation, I'll force a smile.

— Dave McCary

My dad was a Seventh-Day Adventist pastor, and from an early age I was put off by being force-fed a belief system.

— Dave McCary

My dream was never necessarily comedy. I really wanted to make film or television and was interested in darker stuff over comedy,…

— Dave McCary

I totally cared - that I didn't have access to the money to get the coolest clothes ate away at me.

— Dave McCary

When you go into pre-production on a movie, you can spend weeks and even months working on the nuances of the animatronics…

— Dave McCary

I just don't like filming scenes where it's like, that's not how people talk. People aren't saying a joke every five seconds.

— Dave McCary

On YouTube, we were our own masters. We could sit on an edit until we got it right, we could choose quality…

— Dave McCary

And it's just my opinion that I don't think film school is necessary for filmmakers. But I don't want to discourage someone…

— Dave McCary

I think I'm just a little, for a lack of a better word, primal in how I operate in all aspects of…

— Dave McCary

I'm just generally lazy.

— Dave McCary

The path that Lonely Island took got us excited to think we could get somewhere legitimate by making little videos.

— Dave McCary

We started Good Neighbor in like 2006? Right around the time that Kyle graduated college. And I was doing freelance editing.

— Dave McCary

But I really like our experimental, performance and monologue videos, where there's barely jokes in the video, where it's almost a joke…

— Dave McCary

I got a lot of my film education from sneaking into media labs at USC. I probably owe USC a lot of…

— Dave McCary

I think wrestling was the most fantastical thing I was exposed to.

— Dave McCary

I think when you work enough on your doing freelance stuff on other films, you start to feel what it feels like…

— Dave McCary

I don't need to spend money on school when I can just do it myself. I have pretty much everything I need…

— Dave McCary

We see the worst versions of ourselves - things we did or could have done - in the characters who inspire us.

— Dave McCary