40 Quotes by B. J. Novak

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

I do not have very much office experience.

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?