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" A huge part of making something work is getting along with people you work with. You want them to succeed; you want them to bring their ideas to life as much as possible. "

" A lot of the 'Portlandia' characters and a lot of the moments aren't really TV-worthy, but that's what is so refreshing about seeing them. "

" As the director, you have it in your mind how you want the part done, how you want someone to do it, and so sometimes you just say, 'Why don't I do it myself?' So for a little role, I'll just do it. "

" Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what's the avant-garde of comedy. "

" Certain shows, when it's all comedy, it's like when you eat something that's too sweet and it just tastes gross. You need that salted caramel. "

" Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it. "

" Different actors have different rhythms. My goal as a director is to let these guys get their best work out. "

" Everything else was snarky and high concept, while 'Roseanne' was just a normal family. "

" Everything on TV is perfect, and it's so boring. "

" 'Fawlty Towers' was a huge influence on me. I mean, it was so slapstick, too. 'Are You Being Served?' was on 15 times a day, it seemed like, and I loved it. "

" For me, I love and hate Costco. I think it's ruined America and made America great. "

" I always look at 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.' They talked about how they wrote this movie with horses, and then they realized that horses are super-expensive and time-consuming. 'Why don't we just change it to coconuts?' That's part of my process. "

" I always want to push myself. "

" I am huge fan of Australian comedy. 'Strictly Ballroom' is one of my favorite movies. Definitely the British Commonwealth's sensibility is where I draw a lot of my influences. "

" I definitely feel the pressure to keep things fresh and original. "

" If you have, especially with siblings, something like the competition for mom's affection, it just never goes away. "

" I know comedy; I know how to do crazy, off-the-wall stuff that makes me laugh out loud. "

" I know, especially in my family, people's feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I'm sure that's true in every family. But, for instance, one year, I came a little bit late to Thanksgiving, and I was supposed to bring a salad. And I just brought a bag of lettuce, and put it in a bowl. Five years later, I heard that my mom was incensed. "

" I like dry-to-the-bone stuff. I don't know what it is. I was raised on PBS showing weird British comedies. "

" I look at a show like 'Roseanne.' That's super influential on me. It's very funny, very real, with real problems. That was a big influence, and I don't know if you see that all the time in the network world. "

" I love awesome mixed drinks. "

" I loved 'Welcome to the Dollhouse.' That was one of the most influential movies ever. You know that genre with the nerdy girl, and she redeems herself in the end. Like 'Napoleon Dynamite.' And in 'Welcome to the Dollhouse,' she doesn't. She sucks. It's like, that's what's real. That's what's heartbreaking. "

" I love the beige, tan, stucco world where the sun bleaches things out to the point that it can look somewhat ugly. "

" I love working with nonactors. "

" I'm a huge 'Twin Peaks' fan. "

" I'm never trying to make something esoteric; it just happens. "

" I'm not a big 'scripted comedy' person necessarily. I'm open for wherever comedy can be found. "

" In Portland, it rains all the time - but who cares? That's not funny. That's not universal. "

" In your twenties, you might want to be radical and change the world, but in your thirties, you might just want to be happy and ground yourself. "

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" I saw Sleater Kinney perform back when I was in college. "

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