“It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.” PeoplePlansGreat Things Author:Thomas Lennon
“The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.” PeopleInput Author: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.” PeopleTwoThreeAnswersSixSevenStudiosProducersExecutivesCommittees Author:Thomas Lennon
“Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical.” PeopleWritingBookHalfHollywoodStudiosCreditTheoreticalWriting A BookScreenwriting Author:Thomas Lennon
“People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.” PeopleGuyComedyScriptsPassingPassingsReputationScreenwritersSketch Comedy Author:Thomas Lennon
“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.” PeopleKnowsNeedsPersonsStuffStudiosMessMinefields Author:Thomas Lennon
“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.” PeopleThinkingWellsPlayCharacterFilmComedyMinutesPerformancesBackgroundsComing OutExpectingSketch Comedy Author:Thomas Lennon
“The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it's not my fault.” PeopleIfsMindKindFilmThreeLevelsActingFaultsDimensionsThree DimensionsWaiver Author:Thomas Lennon
