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" I'm a huge 'Twin Peaks' fan. "
Jonathan Krisel
Peaks
Twin Peaks
Twin
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" I definitely feel the pressure to keep things fresh and original. "
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Fresh
Pressure
Things
" 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. "
Jonathan Krisel
Funny
Moments
You
" Different actors have different rhythms. My goal as a director is to let these guys get their best work out. "
Jonathan Krisel
Goal
Work
Different
" You can tell a lot about a person by what comedians they like. "
Jonathan Krisel
Lot
Person
Tell
" 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. "
Jonathan Krisel
Ownership
Proud
End
" 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. "
Jonathan Krisel
Change
Change The World
Happy
" 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. "
Jonathan Krisel
Loved
Movies
Know
" 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. "
Jonathan Krisel
Past
You
Looking
" Everything on TV is perfect, and it's so boring. "
Jonathan Krisel
TV
Perfect
Everything
" It's how you define yourself. It's not Nirvana or Pearl Jam: it's, 'Do you watch 'Portlandia' or 'Amy Schumer'?' It relates to a specific sense of humor. And, 'Do you know the hidden gems?' Like, if you knew the Pixies in the '80s. "
Jonathan Krisel
You
Know
Humor
" If you have, especially with siblings, something like the competition for mom's affection, it just never goes away. "
Jonathan Krisel
Never
Affection
Competition
" 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. "
Jonathan Krisel
Influence
World
Time
" In Portland, it rains all the time - but who cares? That's not funny. That's not universal. "
Jonathan Krisel
Portland
Cares
Funny
" I went to film school, and I came in when video art was king, weird stuff was king, and there, you don't have a script as your bible. "
Jonathan Krisel
You
Art
Weird
" Portland is utopia. My favorite thing would be it's earnestness. I am earnest, too. "
Jonathan Krisel
Too
Portland
I Am
" On 'Baskets,' I'm not sure what the demographic is. "
Jonathan Krisel
Demographic
Sure
" Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what's the avant-garde of comedy. "
Jonathan Krisel
Bands
Tour
Good
" 'Portlandia' is 100 percent improvised, and I came into this business not knowing anything. "
Jonathan Krisel
Knowing
Anything
Business
" 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. "
Jonathan Krisel
Comedy
Movies
I Am
" My dad did show me interesting movies at a young age. I remember he showed me 'A Clockwork Orange,' and my mom said, 'I never want to see this movie in my house again.' "
Jonathan Krisel
Age
Remember
Mom
" My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh. At least that's where everything starts, and then my other through line would be a dry absurdity that exponentially spirals out of reality. "
Jonathan Krisel
Small
Reality
Laugh
" I think when you work with people who are super exceptional, there's simplicity to it because everybody is on the same page in terms of tone. "
Jonathan Krisel
Work
People
Simplicity
" Once the big lights come in, you can feel self-conscious. How can you capture the scene without ruining it and freezing people up? You keep it small and lean. "
Jonathan Krisel
You
Small
Lights
" There is no 'recycle too much.' That's an oxymoron. "
Jonathan Krisel
Much
Recycle
Too
" Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it. "
Jonathan Krisel
Like
Horror
Feel
" There's a good family of actors in 'Portlandia.' It's a small community with people who pop up again and again. The show's a little weird show, and you want to grow with the people who are in it, like Dana who plays the chicken waitress, and Ellen who was the adult babysitter. "
Jonathan Krisel
People
Small
Good
" '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. "
Jonathan Krisel
Influence
You
Mean
" 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. "
Jonathan Krisel
People
Thanksgiving
Family
" 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. "
Jonathan Krisel
Content
You
See
" 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. "
Jonathan Krisel
Myself
You
Sometimes