Tim Heidecker Quotes

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.

There's probably some buried conservative inside of me, coming out like a little gremlin in my belly that I've suppressed. This is a sort of character I've done before: He's kind of dumb and he's kind of arrogant, and a little seedy. A little coke-y. He's gotten into the cocaine or he's had too much coffee. It's been pretty fun. Not all the songs are like that but it sort of creeps in there.

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

We use all the takes that no one would ever use and often the moments before we say action, or before we say cut. No one's ever called and complained or anything like that. Everyone's just so grateful to get the work and to be on TV and all that.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.

Just because we can shoot something that looks like a movie doesn't mean we should. Sometimes if something looks too good, it's not funny. Some things need to look good, because we think it's funny that you'd spend so much time and be so precious about such a stupid idea.

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.

Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it.

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.

It's never fun to read death threats.

A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, "Sit behind the guitar and play the chords," just because it's such a lame image. It's not rock'n'roll at all to be sitting behind a guitar.

Most of the time, we write something and then figure out who would be best to do it.

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.

At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.

The scariest thing about screening a comedy ... if you screen a drama, you know, there's no real way to tell in real time if people are enjoying it or not. But in a comedy, it's like, if people aren't laughing, it's sort of scary.

Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare!

I don't have a big hang-up about my body.

There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.

When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.