I don't need to spend money on school when I can just do it myself. I have pretty much everything I need with a camera and some funny friends.
I totally cared - that I didn't have access to the money to get the coolest clothes ate away at me.
On YouTube, we were our own masters. We could sit on an edit until we got it right, we could choose quality over quantity.
We see the worst versions of ourselves - things we did or could have done - in the characters who inspire us.
But 'Brigsby Bear' was really important to me, because I wanted to tackle something dramatic.
When you go into pre-production on a movie, you can spend weeks and even months working on the nuances of the animatronics on the bear head. If we were to write a sketch about an animatronic bear on 'SNL,' we'd have to come up with every aspect of the suit within 24 hours.
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 a number of things that I'm super embarrassed by and wish didn't air.
Working on 'SNL,' you can have a really stressful experience or a really bad week, and I could see how much of a nightmare that could be for someone who doesn't have a network of buddies going through that with them.
Everybody has their own story or they've been shaped by their upbringing, and we have to love them for what that experience created.
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.
But I really like our experimental, performance and monologue videos, where there's barely jokes in the video, where it's almost a joke in itself that the monologue is even being recorded.
I think wrestling was the most fantastical thing I was exposed to.
Once I got into film, I was never like, 'I want to make comedies.'
I think I'm just a little, for a lack of a better word, primal in how I operate in all aspects of life.
With filmmaking in general, I have never absorbed the traditional knowledge of film history or filmmaking. It has always been just pick up the camera and go figure it out.
My dream was never necessarily comedy. I really wanted to make film or television and was interested in darker stuff over comedy, but I knew I liked dark comedies.
It's unfortunate that it's not realistic that you can get people to come to a movie theater not knowing anything about the movie.
Even if I'm not having the best time in a social situation, I'll force a smile.
I think when you work enough on your doing freelance stuff on other films, you start to feel what it feels like to work with people who are not totally on the same page as you.
Film is a very specific world in which I don't think you really need to go to film school.
