Woliner Quotes & Sayings

Before YouTube, I used to show videos at film festivals, and that was good and constructive. Watching things with an audience is a great way to gauge - it's pretty clear what's working in comedy when there's a joke and people laugh or don't laugh. — Jason Woliner

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. — Thomas Sowell

To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty. — Benjamin Franklin

I'm not saying I was scared. Okay, I was scared. He had an MP5. I had a Nikon. — Joel C. Rosenberg

Dude, you are not equating being on that lame-ass Star Search wannabe show with hosting American Bandstand, are you? — Keith R.A. DeCandido

Myself, Eric Wareheim, and Jason Woliner decided to start a Food Club where the three of us go to restaurants with a couple of other people. The three of us are the captains of the Food Club, so we have to wear the captains' hats. — Aziz Ansari

We made 'Shutterbugs' and 'The Illusionators' to play live at UCB. — Jason Woliner

The important thing was that I was still on the radio. — Dick Biondi

Compete with no man but thyself.
Always seek opportunities to improve upon your best performance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people. — John Baldacci

The process of doing plays will make you an actor. — Stephen Collins

We would write scripts, like for 'Shutterbugs.' Then when we shot it, everyone just came up with new stuff. We've definitely learned how to do it better as we've gotten along. So basically, that's how it went. We just go in with ideas and try to figure out funny stuff while we're there. — Jason Woliner

With 'Human Giant,' we tested almost everything live and made tweaks based on what worked and what didn't. — Jason Woliner

The toughest feeling is when you need to be emotionally sophisticated. — Upasana Banerjee

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day. — Alberto Moravia

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back — A.A. Gill

Wikipedia lacks the habit or tradition of respect for expertise. As a community, far from being elitist (which would, in this context, mean excluding the unwashed masses), it is anti-elitist (which, in this context, means that expertise is not accorded any special respect, and snubs and disrespect of expertise is tolerated). — Larry Sanger

Jacinda,
Sorry, but I had to leave town for a farm thing. Try not to knock any other teachers unconscious while I'm gone.
See you soon (but not soon enough),
Will — Sophie Jordan

A psychology degree doesn't get you very far. — Jerry Bruckheimer

I dropped out of college and ended up making this feature film I wrote when I was 19 with some friends. It was terrible. — Jason Woliner