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" This might be controversial, but sometimes I think that being happy is a decision. I don't mean that in a way to diminish clinical depression. But on a more day-to-day level. "

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" Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK. "

Will Arnett

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Work

Escape

" This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on. "

" Any time you can build jokes around a story that resonates on an emotional level, it is going to have a big impact. "

" I started acting as a teenager, but it wasn't until I moved to New York when I was 20 that I made any kind of commitment. "

" And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors. "

" Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people. "

" Any kind of run-of-the-mill flaws that are easily solved, to me, are boring. Situational flaws, for example. I like flaws that are rooted in a deep distrust in people because of a lack of love. "

" When David Cross and I made 'Todd Margaret,' we spent time there. We were shocked and happy with the reaction that we got with fans over there. It was pretty awesome. "

" I don't aim to make art in a vacuum - you want people to like it. "

Will Arnett

People

You

" At no point was I like, 'Man, I gotta write me a part where people are going to take me seriously'. "

Will Arnett

Going

Man

" I pretty much choose anything I do in life based on whether or not I can work in my PJs. Certainly one of the perks of doing an animated film is that you don't have to go and get ready and wear wardrobe, and you just show up in whatever you're wearing. "

" With 'Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I wanted to play a character who lives more in the real world, although yes, I grant you, he immediately encounters, um, turtles, of the teenage mutant ninja variety. "

" Because 'Gob' was a terrible magician, he was always, in great comedic moments, messing up his magic act. We used to have magicians come in to work on these tricks to actually get them wrong. But they still had to work. We had to bring magicians on to make magic not work. "

Will Arnett

Magic

Great

" I spent a lot of time quasi-fascinated with characters who were super-dumb and super-cocky. I always liked that combination. "

" And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development. "

" Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters. "

" Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it. "

" Venice is a place that is high on reinvention. The kind of place that you can go and be whoever it is you want to be and do whatever it is you want to do, and nobody's really going to ask you a lot of questions about it. "

" Arrested Development opened a lot of doors for me. "

Will Arnett

Doors

Lot

" You meet lots of people in your life, and sometimes you think that people are a certain way, and then they reveal themselves to be a different way. "

" One of the greatest punsters of all time, Peter Serafinowicz, is a good friend of mine, and I've been in situations more than once where people have been exhausted hanging around with him. "

" What came out of 'The LEGO Movie' was the idea of 'Batman's the Dark Knight', so why is he so moody? What's going on? Why is he so banged up? And wouldn't it be fun to get in there and explore that? "

" Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. "

" Vernon Fenwick. He's a cameraman at Channel 6 - he's April O'Neil's cameraman - and Vernon is a character who is from the 'Turtle' mythology. "

" Well, we were never coming back to Fox... that was clear. "

" I'm not necessarily interested in telling the story of people who are super likable. "

" It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint. "

" The show had run its course on the Fox network. "

" My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots. "

" And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show. "