Thomas Lennon Quotes

• If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.

  Thomas Lennon

  Writing, Class, Important

  Fuente: www.gq.com

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• The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.

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  People, Input

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• The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.

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  Records, Firsts, My Own

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• Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.

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  Opportunity, Waiting, Entertainment

  Fuente: collider.com

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• People love that monkey torture.

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  People, Monkeys, Torture

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• If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

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  Pages, Studios, Ifs

  "Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant Interview WRITING MOVIES FOR (FUN AND) PROFIT: HOW WE MADE A BILLION DOLLARS AT THE BOX OFFICE AND YOU CAN, TOO!". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. July 4, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Curves, Bells, Littles

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• Lo bueno de ser escritor es que no necesitas nada, salvo un portátil. Realmente puedes hacer tu propio trabajo y si no estás maníacamente obligado a escribir todo el tiempo antes de hacerlo profesionalmente, probablemente no sea un negocio para ti de todos modos.

  Thomas Lennon

  Writing, Needs, Laptops

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome.

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  Jobs, Writing, Best Job

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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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  Jobs, Comedian, Screenwriting

  "The GQA: Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. July 7, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Character, Actors, Shows

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• I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but we both were coming out of a sketch comedy background, so when we pitch a movie, we play every character in the film. You act it out, you perform it - you do a 10-minute performance of the movie.

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  Carácter, Pensamiento, Juego

  Fuente: www.gq.com

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• 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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  Dos, Personas, Tres

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• Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.

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  Passion, Writing, Projects

  "Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant Interview Writing Movies for (Fun and) Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. July 04, 2011.

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• The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.

  Thomas Lennon

  Way, Vague

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• I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.

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  Funny Things, Looks, Scene

  "Exclusive: Thomas Lennon on A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR CHRISTMAS 3D; Says There's a Lot of Nudity Including Showering Nuns". Interview with Steve 'Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 5, 2010.

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• The best thing that happened during the filming of Out Cold is that I forged a friendship with Lee Majors that endured for almost 12 weeks.

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  Cold, Week, Best Things

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• Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. Its a nice feeling.

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  Nice, Kids, Feelings

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• 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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  Hollywood, Bad Movies, Happens

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• Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You've got to do crunches all day long. You've got to get up and learn lines.

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  Stars, Long, Lines

  "Exclusive: Thomas Lennon on A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR CHRISTMAS 3D; Says There's a Lot of Nudity Including Showering Nuns". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 5, 2010.

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• It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.

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  People, Great Things, Plans

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• Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.

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  School, Old School, Laughing

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• 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.

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  Hate, Done, Scripts

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• 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.

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  Commitment, Years, Goes On

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• I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.

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  Writing, Littles, Way

  Fuente: www.gq.com

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