Mike Birbiglia Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I will say what I aspire to is a consistency in making films, to direct something every couple of years.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Couple, Years, Consistency

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• I was a screenwriting major in college, and really wanted to do that after I graduated, but there are no job listings for that, as we all know. I had many classmates that made it in the business, but stand-up comedy was my way in, and my first film 'Sleepwalk with Me' was based on those autobiographical experiences.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Jobs, College, Way

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• I thought if I could do stand-up comedy well enough, I could parlay it back into films - like Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen did. They merged principles of comedy and drama together, and that's what my first film really was, a stab at that kind of comedy.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Drama, Together, Principles

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• In my twenties, I thought it was getting a sitcom. Then I got a sitcom pilot in my early thirties, and realized I didn't want it. It was a rude awakening. When it wasn't picked up, I was crushed, but then in retrospect I've made two films and produced three one-man shows since then. It's the luckiest thing that happened in my life.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Men, Two, Rude

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Art, Wall, Writing

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• I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Laughing, Film, Dramatic

  "Mike Birbiglia and Chris Gethard sit down and chat about ‘Don’t Think Twice’". Interview with Jeff Mitchell, thecinemafiles.com. June 13, 2016.

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