76 Quotes by Richard Ayoade

Somewhere in the distance a wolf could be howling, but he decides not to. This particular wolf is by nature quiet and doesn’t wish to blindly conform to stereotype.

I have all these things that I want to say to her, like... Like how I can tell she’s a lonely person, even if other people can’t. Cause I know what it feels like to be lost and lonely and invisible.

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That’s the primary link between the story and the audience.

I don’t know how to be myself. It’s like I’m permanently outside myself. Like, like you could push your hands straight through me if you wanted to. And I can see the type of man I want to be versus the type of man I actually am and I know that I’m doing it but I’m incapable of what needs to be done. I’m like Pinocchio, a wooden boy. Not a real boy. And it kills me.

I’ve always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

Fury is something you need, and if someone tells you otherwise, try screaming at them. They’ll often go quiet and start to cry. That’s when you know you’ve won.

American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You’re just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn’t all about the script, really.

To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It’s almost impossible to do it without any humour.

I try to write every day. Sometimes the things come out well, and sometimes they don’t. When they come out well you think, Wow, I must be really great; and when they come out poorly, you think you must be terrible, but the truth is that’s how any process works.