64 Quotes by Thomas Lennon

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    That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.

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    There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice.

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    We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film.

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    When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.

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    We shot 2 seasons back-to-back, and once you're sort of in a groove, it's easier to just keep going instead of stop shooting, so it's been kinda nice.

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    Honestly, I like improvising, because the jokes are just always really fresh - it's not jokes that you wrote weeks and weeks ago.

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    I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.

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    If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.

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    I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but we both were coming out of a sketch comedy background, so when we pitch a movie, we play every character in the film. You act it out, you perform it - you do a 10-minute performance of the movie.

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