Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.
There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.
I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.
A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.
I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.
I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.
The idea that everyone's opinion is valuable is sometimes up for question.
I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work,' or, 'This is how a character must behave.'
I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.
I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.
The scariest thing about screening a comedy... if you screen a drama, you know, there's no real way to tell in real time if people are enjoying it or not. But in a comedy, it's like, if people aren't laughing, it's sort of scary.
Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.
I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.
It's never fun to read death threats.
There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.
I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.
Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare!
There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.
There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.
I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.
