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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Jonathan Krisel

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" '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. "

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

Jonathan Krisel

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

" Things that people are doing constantly but aren't thinking about. That's the ultimate 'Portlandia' concept. "

" You see a lot of comedic content that's not funny, and you can tell that it's supposed to be funny, but it's actually not funny. "

" I love awesome mixed drinks. "

" It's exciting being in the present. You're always reading emails, talking about the future, looking at pictures on Facebook of the past. But living in the present? It's almost a dead medium. I almost want to do a sketch about being in the present. "

" I think any person who is starting out in a creative endeavor is not going to be good at it right out of the gate. "

" When you make a pilot, you've never seen the show before; you don't know what it is. "

" You can tell a lot about a person by what comedians they like. "

" The end goal is to make a piece that everybody has ownership over and everybody's proud of because everybody contributed to it. I think there's a communist, socialist vibe to 'Portlandia' to make it work. "

" 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. "

" There is no 'recycle too much.' That's an oxymoron. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Portland is utopia. My favorite thing would be it's earnestness. I am earnest, too. "

" 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. "

" Louie Anderson thinks my thing is the absurdness of reality. That's what we do on 'Portlandia' all the time. I try to bring that absurdness of reality to everything. "

" There's some moments in your life where you're just like, 'I need something just funny.' That's the noble thing you can do. Make someone forget about their life for 22 minutes. "

" With comedy, I've always had a pretty good sense of what I like and how to execute it well, but drama has its own rules. "

" Portland is a place where everyone closes their eyes and crosses their fingers and hopes for a better community. They keep it small and local, and usually they think if they just make great coffee, it's the best thing for the neighborhood. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Nobody sets out to be evil. They're insecure, and they make bad decisions. "