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" The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague. "
Thomas Lennon
Only
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" I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it. "
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" Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome. "
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Job
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" I was on the speech team, we called it forensics. "
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Team
Forensics
Speech
" The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get. "
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People
Take
You
" 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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People
Three
" Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens. "
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" It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan. "
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Work
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" The first record I bought with my own money was Rio. "
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My Own
Record
Rio
" If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page. "
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Writer
You
Studio
" 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. "
Thomas Lennon
Like
Film
Fox
" All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it. "
Thomas Lennon
Yourself
Possible
Way
" 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. "
Thomas Lennon
Working
Commitment
Movies
" Super Troopers is hilarious. Everybody always thought we somehow - we did Reno way, way before any of us had seen Super Troopers. It sat on the shelf for a couple years. "
Thomas Lennon
Years
Always
Before
" Kerri and I met at theatre camp when were 16 years old, which is pretty lame. The rest of us met when we founded the State at New York University in 1988. Most of our adult lives have been spent bickering with these people. "
Thomas Lennon
Rest
New York
New
" I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters. "
Thomas Lennon
Character
You
Tell
" Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd. "
Thomas Lennon
Six
Write
Reward
" Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it. "
Thomas Lennon
Old School
Through
Way
" You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done. "
Thomas Lennon
Yourself
Change
You
" Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you. "
Thomas Lennon
Passion
You
Write