Thomas Lennon Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.

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

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.

Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

People love that monkey torture.

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.

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