Latest Bob Odenkirk Quotes from Interviews

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• You can't guarantee that you'll make a great movie, but you can make a greater effort than I made at trying to see that the basics are there.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Effort, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Not to knock the people who've given me the opportunity; I appreciate all the opportunities I've gotten, but one of the things I think I really learned from the features I got to direct is that your job as a director is everything about the movie. It's to pick a story that's really worth making, and make sure that the basic components are there. You're not just a part of the team. You're really in charge, and the responsibility falls on you if all the components aren't there for a worthwhile film.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Team, Fall, Responsibility

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I learn things in a backward way. I learn all those limitations, and slowly my brain soaks them up, and if things go right, you just, in an organic way, translate your ideas into those templates. That's the way I perceive the process happening.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Brain, Translate, Perceive

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The worst thing is to read bad reviews and go, "Yeah, I agree."

  Bob Odenkirk

  Reviews, Yeah, Worst

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I pretty much read reviews and comments only looking for the negative. Literally, when I read positive comments, it's like a zero. I think the issue is if you agree with it or not.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Zero, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.avclub.com

• With acting, if a friend asked me to be in a movie or TV show, there's a lot of things on my résumé I did without reading them or knowing what they were. I just said I'd do that because a friend wrote it, directed, produced, acted in it. With directing, I'm sticking to my guns, not that a lot of people are begging me to direct.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Reading, Gun, Tv Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

• You get to use everything you learned in movie business. You talk to actors, if you do it right - and I haven't always done it right - you should be shaping the material all the time. And the other thing is, you get all the blame when you direct and it doesn't work. You get slammed. So that's another reason to know what you're making, why you're making it, and make it the way you want.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Use, Actors, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

• In acting, you're only responsible for your part. When you're directing, the load is on your shoulders, so you have to feel a strong connection to the material. It's a higher bar to get over.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Strong, Acting, Connections

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Acting in particular is a fun job when you have a good script. I don't know about acting when you don't have a great script. I'm gonna say that's not a great job, it's kind of a dumb job. But when you have a good part in a good script, it's the best job, in a way.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Jobs, Fun, Best Job

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Directing is probably the best job, but acting is really, really great. It's like a fun vacation that you get paid for.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Jobs, Fun, Vacation

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When you envy actors, only envy them for their good roles. Keep in mind they have to do a lot of roles to make a living, and not all of them are good. When they're doing a stupid role in a bad production, it's kind of a dumb thing to do when you're an adult. When you're doing a great role that's well-written, it's an enviable job.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Jobs, Stupid, Envy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It's fun to discover things. I wouldn't want everything laid out, simply and too obviously.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Fun, Want

  Source: collider.com

• We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Honesty, Real, People

  Source: www.salon.com

• I've always tried to have a rule that you shouldn't make fun of innocent people who can't defend themselves. I find that a little unseemly and distasteful. But nothing's really sacred to me.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Fun, People, Littles

  Source: www.salon.com

• If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am "somewhat fun."

  Bob Odenkirk

  Fun, Darkness, Surround

  Source: www.salon.com

• Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Real, Skills, Important

  Source: www.salon.com

• The world needs less destruction.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Needs, World, Destruction

  "'Yes, people know me as Saul Goodman': Bob Odenkirk and David Cross talk reunion, 'Breaking Bad,' 'Mr. Show'". Interview with Mike Thomas, www.salon.com. November 14, 2015.

• When you're 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you're 70 you can't play a 20-year-old.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Years, Play, Guy

  Source: www.salon.com

• Comedy can be destructive, and still very, very funny. But if I can do something that is fun to watch and critical of the world but not wantonly destructive, I pursue those kinds of ideas more. The world needs less destruction. And destruction is kind of “easy,” too.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Fun, Ideas, Watches

  "'Yes, people know me as Saul Goodman': Bob Odenkirk and David Cross talk reunion, 'Breaking Bad,' 'Mr. Show'". Interview with Mike Thomas, www.salon.com. November 14, 2015.

• I felt my personal life was not what it should be. It had nothing to do with Mr. Show - I'm monstrously appreciative and understand what it did for me and to me - but after four years, I just felt like I needed to do something else. I guess I wanted to be in a different place, physically.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Years, Four, Different

  Source: www.ew.com

• My goal, whenever entering a project, is always to gain 12 pounds.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Goal, Pounds, Entering

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Don't say you're going to stop eating red meat when you like red meat.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Meat, Red, Eating

  "Bob Odenkirk and David Cross talk new Netflix series W/ Bob & David". Interview with Ariana Bacle, ew.com. November 11, 2015.

• Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Needs, Comedy, Sketch Comedy

  "Bob Odenkirk and David Cross talk new Netflix series W/ Bob & David" by Ariana Bacle, ew.com. November 11, 2015.

• You shouldn't eat red meat, but you shouldn't make resolutions you can't keep.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Meat, Red, Resolution

  "Bob Odenkirk and David Cross talk new Netflix series W/ Bob & David". Interview with Ariana Bacle, ew.com. November 11, 2015.

• You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Pope

  "Bob Odenkirk and David Cross talk new Netflix series W/ Bob & David". Interview with Ariana Bacle, ew.com. November 11, 2015.