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Famous Quotes By Thomas Lennon

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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. — Thomas Lennon

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I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story. — Thomas Lennon

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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

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There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice. — Thomas Lennon

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Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. It's a nice feeling. — Thomas Lennon

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

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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. — Thomas Lennon

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The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you anyway. — Thomas Lennon

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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. — Thomas Lennon

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People love that monkey torture. — Thomas Lennon

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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. — Thomas Lennon

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Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical. — Thomas Lennon

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Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio's marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for? — Thomas Lennon

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Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that. — Thomas Lennon

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The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it's not my fault. — Thomas Lennon

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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

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Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd. — Thomas Lennon

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Writing studio movies is the best job in the world ... it's awesome. — Thomas Lennon

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

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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. — Thomas Lennon

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Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it. — Thomas Lennon

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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. — Thomas Lennon

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People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys. — Thomas Lennon

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The first record I bought with my own money was Rio. — Thomas Lennon

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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. — Thomas Lennon

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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. — Thomas Lennon

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The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague. — Thomas Lennon

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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. — Thomas Lennon

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I was on the speech team, we called it forensics. — Thomas Lennon

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If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page. — Thomas Lennon

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I need to be spontaneous sometimes. Sometimes I find that the little detail or nuance that you add to it that's based on what's happening at the time that's not very rehearsed often ends up feeling like the funniest thing. — Thomas Lennon

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There are many self-proclaimed "screenwriting gurus" - though how you get to be a "guru" of something you've never actually done is beyond us. Screenplays are like blueprints. A guy who's drawn up a lot of blueprints that have never actually been made into buildings is not an "architecture guru," he's an "unemployed douchebag." A guy who talks about screen-writing but who's never sold a screenplay is not a "screenwriting guru," he's a "lecture circuit bullshit artist." From now on, that's what we'll call them. — Thomas Lennon

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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. — Thomas Lennon

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Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time. — Thomas Lennon

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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. — Thomas Lennon

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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

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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. — Thomas Lennon

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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

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

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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. — Thomas Lennon