Latest Thomas Lennon Quotes from Interviews

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• I need to be spontaneous sometimes. Sometimes I find that the little detail or nuance that you add to it that's based on what's happening at the time that's not very rehearsed often ends up feeling like the funniest thing.

  Thomas Lennon

  Feelings, Details, Add

  "Exclusive: Thomas Lennon on A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR CHRISTMAS 3D; Says There's a Lot of Nudity Including Showering Nuns". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 5, 2010.

• I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.

  Thomas Lennon

  Funny Things, Looks, Scene

  "Exclusive: Thomas Lennon on A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR CHRISTMAS 3D; Says There's a Lot of Nudity Including Showering Nuns". Interview with Steve 'Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 5, 2010.

• Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You've got to do crunches all day long. You've got to get up and learn lines.

  Thomas Lennon

  Stars, Long, Lines

  "Exclusive: Thomas Lennon on A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR CHRISTMAS 3D; Says There's a Lot of Nudity Including Showering Nuns". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 5, 2010.

• 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.

  Thomas Lennon

  People, Mind, Acting

  "Exclusive: Thomas Lennon on A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR CHRISTMAS 3D; Says There's a Lot of Nudity Including Showering Nuns". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 5, 2010.

• Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio's marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for?

  Thomas Lennon

  Marketing, Answers, Made

  Source: collider.com

• The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you anyway.

  Thomas Lennon

  Writing, Needs, Laptops

  Source: collider.com

• Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.

  Thomas Lennon

  Opportunity, Waiting, Entertainment

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Thomas Lennon

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.gq.com

• If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.

  Thomas Lennon

  Writing, Class, Important

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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.

  Thomas Lennon

  People, Stuff, Needs

  Source: www.gq.com

• I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.

  Thomas Lennon

  Writing, Littles, Way

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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.

  Thomas Lennon

  People, Guy, Scripts

  Source: www.gq.com

• I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

  Thomas Lennon

  Character, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.gq.com

• Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.

  Thomas Lennon

  Book, Writing, Crafts

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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.

  Thomas Lennon

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.gq.com