Jeff Baena quotes

“If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.”
-- Jeff Baena

Source : Source: collider.com

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“When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.”
-- Jeff Baena

Source : "Why Dane DeHaan and Aubrey Plaza's 'Life After Beth' Make Out Could Have Been Awkward". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, yahoo.com. August 7, 2014.

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“My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.”
-- Jeff Baena

Source : "Why Dane DeHaan and Aubrey Plaza’s ‘Life After Beth’ Make Out Could Have Been Awkward". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.thewrap.com. August 7, 2014.

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“I had an approach where everything that's happening it should be as though it's an experience for somebody. So if you're experiencing a hurricane, if you're experiencing a car crash or whatever it is, you're only experiencing as yourself, you're not experiencing it from some objective point of view.”
-- Jeff Baena

Source : Source: collider.com

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“In nature there are few sharp lines”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1968). “Selected poems”

“I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.”

“Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.”

“Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.”

Source : "Broadway Favorite Aaron Tveit Tackles the Small Screen With ‘Graceland’". Interview with Suzy Evans, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2013.

“I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.”

“Let's blow some stuff up.”

“I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.”

“There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.”

Source : "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.

“The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.”

“For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.”