If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page. Thomas Lennon More Quotes by Thomas Lennon More Quotes From Thomas Lennon People love that monkey torture. Thomas Lennon torture monkeys people The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get. Thomas Lennon input people The first record I bought with my own money was Rio. Thomas Lennon records my-own firsts 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. Thomas Lennon important writing class Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it. Thomas Lennon old-school laughing school Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens. Thomas Lennon bad-movies hollywood happens It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan. Thomas Lennon great-things plans people 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. Thomas Lennon funny-things scene looks Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you. Thomas Lennon projects passion writing When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive. Thomas Lennon three two people Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own. Thomas Lennon entertainment waiting opportunity The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague. Thomas Lennon vague way 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. Thomas Lennon best-things cold week Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. Its a nice feeling. Thomas Lennon nice feelings kids I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but we both were coming out of a sketch comedy background, so when we pitch a movie, we play every character in the film. You act it out, you perform it - you do a 10-minute performance of the movie. Thomas Lennon play character thinking All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it. Thomas Lennon bells curves littles 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. Thomas Lennon scripts hate done 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. Thomas Lennon actors shows character 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. Thomas Lennon stuff people needs 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. Thomas Lennon screenwriting comedian jobs
