Tim Heidecker Quotes

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• Most of my ideas just come out funny.

  Tim Heidecker

  Ideas

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

  Tim Heidecker

  Political, Littles, Junkie

  "How Herman Cain Became a Tim and Eric Character". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. November 12, 2011.

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

  Tim Heidecker

  New Music

  "Tim Heidecker Talks Album, Tim & Eric Movie". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 21, 2011.

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• 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.

  Tim Heidecker

  Song, Fun, Coffee

  "How Herman Cain Became a Tim and Eric Character". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. November 12, 2011.

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

  Tim Heidecker

  School, Dope, People

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• 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.

  Tim Heidecker

  Grateful, Cutting, Action

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Tim Heidecker

  Want, Situation

  "Q&A: Tim Heidecker on The Comedy and Being Stabbed". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. November 9, 2012.

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

  Tim Heidecker

  College, Rocks, Band

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• 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.

  Tim Heidecker

  Stupid, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Tim Heidecker

  Fun, School, Personality

  "Q&A: Tim Heidecker on The Comedy and Being Stabbed". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. November 9, 2012.

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• 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.

  Tim Heidecker

  People, Needs, Way

  "Tim and Eric (and Will Forte)'s Zero-Dollar Interview". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 25, 2012.

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

  Tim Heidecker

  Thinking, People, Healthy

  "Sundance 2012: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim Skewer 'Douchey' Hollywood in Their 'Billion Dollar Movie' (Q&A)". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 20, 2012.

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

  Tim Heidecker

  Thinking, Emotion, Expressive

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• It's never fun to read death threats.

  Tim Heidecker

  Fun, Threat

  "Tim & Eric". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• 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.

  Tim Heidecker

  Rocks, Guitar, Play

  "Tim Heidecker Talks Album, Tim & Eric Movie". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 21, 2011.

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

  Tim Heidecker

  Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

  Tim Heidecker

  Movie

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

  Tim Heidecker

  Intelligent, Choices, Wells

  "Q&A with Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim". Interview with Ruthe Stein, www.sfgate.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.

  Tim Heidecker

  Hate, Hipster

  "Q&A: Tim and Eric Cash in on Their 'Billion Dollar Movie'". Interview with Max Evry, www.mtv.com. February 29, 2012.

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• I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.

  Tim Heidecker

  Long, Political, News

  "How Herman Cain Became a Tim and Eric Character". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. November 12, 2011.

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• When people come in to act on the show, we say, "Just be extremely dry and not funny. Let the idea be the joke." That holds true through a lot of our stuff.

  Tim Heidecker

  People, Jokes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking.

  Tim Heidecker

  Laughing, Sinking, Feels

  "Q+A: Tim and Eric's Really Big Movie". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. March 2, 2012.

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• We, the comics that we like, we're all, like, post-humor.

  Tim Heidecker

  Posts

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• Funny people don't really laugh very much.

  Tim Heidecker

  Laughing, People, Funny People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We are making fun of stuff. It is subversive, I think, and in many ways political. It's a reaction against the society we live in, very much so. When we make a commercial for a product that doesn't do anything.

  Tim Heidecker

  Fun, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.avclub.com

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