Tim Heidecker

“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.”

“I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.”

“Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.”

“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.”

“In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I'd like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. That would be fantastic. If Herman Cain became president, there'd be a certain sort of morbid cu...”

“I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want...”

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

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

“I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee.”

“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 comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.”

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

“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 peop...”