305 Quotes by Mike Birbiglia

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

The Hollywood model is to develop scripts for 10 years, sell them, transfer them, attach this actor, then attach a director. This isn't what I'm about. I'm much more of a creator and a doer.

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

I thought if I could do stand-up comedy well enough, I could parlay it back into films - like Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen did. They merged principles of comedy and drama together, and that's what my first film really was, a stab at that kind of comedy.

When I was in college, I wanted to write for 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien,' and I was an intern there.

The economy of film forces you to make choices.

The Comedy Central CDs combined with the TV specials are what led to my stuff being traded and passed around, and a lot more people knowing my jokes than I thought.

I was a screenwriting major in college, and really wanted to do that after I graduated, but there are no job listings for that, as we all know. I had many classmates that made it in the business, but stand-up comedy was my way in, and my first film 'Sleepwalk with Me' was based on those autobiographical experiences.

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.