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Thomas Lennon

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

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Donna Grant

"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."

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Donna Grant

"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."

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Donna Grant

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

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Donna Grant

"Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one."

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Donna Grant

"I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time."

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Donna Grant

"Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it."

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Donna Grant

"We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable."

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Donna Grant

"I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny."

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Donna Grant

"It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music."

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Donna Grant

"This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!"

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Thomas Lennon
"Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. It's a nice feeling."

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Thomas Lennon
"We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film."

Film

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

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Thomas Lennon
"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."

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Thomas Lennon
"Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd."

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Thomas Lennon
"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."

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

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Thomas Lennon
"Super Troopers is hilarious. Everybody always thought we somehow - we did Reno way, way before any of us had seen Super Troopers. It sat on the shelf for a couple years."

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Thomas Lennon
"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."

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

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