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"What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences."
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"I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in."

"There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience."

"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game."

"I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."

"Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease."

"I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me."

"Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing."

"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."
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"I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes."

"Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist."

"I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human."

"The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights."

"There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go."

"I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight."

"What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences."
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