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" You don't want to try to recreate something you've already done. "
Will Arnett
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" 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. "
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" You don't wake up one morning and say, 'Today is going to be a comedy day.' And the next day, 'Today's going to be a drama day.' Things happen in life that are fun and light, and things happen that are heavier. You just have to move your way through life, and I think 'BoJack' is a good reflection of that. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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Right
Rumors
Future
" The thing I always try to hold onto with 'BoJack' and with 'Flaked' is that maybe there is a sliver of hope that they are going to turn it around. They are just having a tough time getting there. And that's the thing with 'BoJack' - he is obviously depressed. "
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" 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. "
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" When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing. "
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Finally
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" I'm not necessarily interested in telling the story of people who are super likable. "
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" I spent a lot of time quasi-fascinated with characters who were super-dumb and super-cocky. I always liked that combination. "
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Always
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Were
" Any time you can build jokes around a story that resonates on an emotional level, it is going to have a big impact. "
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Impact
Build
You
" I say to my kids all the time - and this is absolutely true - I always say, 'Who's the boss?' and they go, 'You are.' "
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Always
Say
Time
" This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on. "
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Far
Hope
Insults
" 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. "
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Doing
Broken
Know
" 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. "
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Boring
Love
Flaws
" We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones. "
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People
Live
Entertainment
" Well, we were never coming back to Fox... that was clear. "
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Never
Well
Back
" I know that my kids are big 'Turtles' fans because there's been this resurgence, especially with the new series on Nickelodeon. "
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Because
Kids
Fans
" 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. "
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People
Exhausted
Friend
" It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. "
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Rare
Very
Who
" 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. "
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Glory
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" 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. "
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Reaction
Awesome
Happy
" No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted. "
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Experience
Amazing
You
" 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. "
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Best
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" I'm a dad first and foremost, then it goes hockey and then work, in that order. "
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Hockey
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" At no point was I like, 'Man, I gotta write me a part where people are going to take me seriously'. "
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Like
Going
Man
" 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? "
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Lego
Why
Going
" When I was a kid, I was a fan of comedy. I always loved Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Dave Letterman - not an actor, obviously, but I'm still impressed by his wit. I wanted to emulate them because they made me laugh. "
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Laugh
Comedy
Me
" 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. "
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Up
Magic
Great
" 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. "
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Commitment
Acting
New York
" 'Gob' is a character that I enjoy playing immensely because I have so much freedom to take his dim-wittedness to all sorts of low levels. I find him interesting because when you see real people who are completely self-unaware, it boggles your mind. "
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