J. R. Todd Quotes

I love confidence in a guy. I don't have it, but there's nothing sexier.

Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion.

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

My movies before tend to be just funny. But it wasn't a conscious thing I was looking for at all.

I feel like movies when they work they'll find an audience.

How many days do you have that are just purely dramatic? How many days do you have that are just purely comedic? It's usually a combination and I think that's what real life feels like.

I just love the look of film. But I have nothing against HD.

I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I,' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.

I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.

My dog's a gentleman.

When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.

I grew up raised by my mom and my two sisters, so I never had a real male influence in my life. I never really understood heterosexual male relationships.

I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'

John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.

When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.

I'm not worried about young people seeing an opportunity and taking advantage of it.

Every weekend in history has worked for movies if the movie connects.

I make decisions to do movies based on the cast. I'd just been working with Zach Galifianakis on 'The Hangover', and I was thinking, I've got to find something to do with this guy immediately.

You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest.

I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.

Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective as trying to sell it.

Make music a service that's easy to consume, and there'll be plenty of money for everyone.

I guess country music works better in supermarkets.

I've always said, rather glibly, that the message of my career has been about individualism, about getting to know yourself and taking responsibility, not just for what you do, but what you think.

Music gets recorded usually in one format, and when you have to take it out and perform it there are other applications and things like that that are better for the live performance.

The ultimate crime is not to care.

I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose?

The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.

Kept his locker full of weed just to satisfy his smoking needs and his love of fire.

It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.

As much as I'd like to be listening to other things, I can't do that until I get all of this sort of put to bed.

If you went crazy, would you know it?

I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience.

I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.

And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.

I'll come around to see you once in a while, or if I ever need a reason to smile, and spend the night if you think I should.

They may be stupid, but they sure are fun.

There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.

Аs long as I've got an audience out there to play for, I'm going to continue to play. I have at least enough people that I can go out on the road for 10, 11 weeks at a time.

Sometimes I'll put a lie for philosophical reasons, and sometimes to make the story shorter.

When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

If I grew up in a different background, I could see myself getting a gun and shooting an abortionist. That's my job, to imagine what could happen, what can make people go in different directions.

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it’s because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

People cant help how they look.

I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.

A movie takes on its own life, and you have to respect that and be open to it.