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I love working with nonactors.

Everything else was snarky and high concept, while 'Roseanne' was just a normal family.

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I'm never trying to make something esoteric; it just happens.

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One second here and there will make all the difference between something being funny and not being funny. That's why I like going, 'Well, we wrote that six months ago, and it was funny one time we read it, but it's not funny anymore. So what? Just dump it.'

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The end goal is to make a piece that everybody has ownership over and everybody's proud of because everybody contributed to it. I think there's a communist, socialist vibe to 'Portlandia' to make it work.

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I look at a show like 'Roseanne.' That's super influential on me. It's very funny, very real, with real problems. That was a big influence, and I don't know if you see that all the time in the network world.

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Things that people are doing constantly but aren't thinking about. That's the ultimate 'Portlandia' concept.

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Portland is utopia. My favorite thing would be it's earnestness. I am earnest, too.

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Once the big lights come in, you can feel self-conscious. How can you capture the scene without ruining it and freezing people up? You keep it small and lean.

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The Internet is a good way to try some stuff with no big crew and no money being spent. Since there are no stakes to it, you can try to be a little experimental.

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My whole thing is, you listen to the actor and help them bring out their best thing.

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'Fawlty Towers' was a huge influence on me. I mean, it was so slapstick, too. 'Are You Being Served?' was on 15 times a day, it seemed like, and I loved it.

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I want to work with extremely, genuinely charismatic people.

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Louie Anderson thinks my thing is the absurdness of reality. That's what we do on 'Portlandia' all the time. I try to bring that absurdness of reality to everything.

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'Portlandia' is 100 percent improvised, and I came into this business not knowing anything.

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My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh. At least that's where everything starts, and then my other through line would be a dry absurdity that exponentially spirals out of reality.

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Certain shows, when it's all comedy, it's like when you eat something that's too sweet and it just tastes gross. You need that salted caramel.

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It's how you define yourself. It's not Nirvana or Pearl Jam: it's, 'Do you watch 'Portlandia' or 'Amy Schumer'?' It relates to a specific sense of humor. And, 'Do you know the hidden gems?' Like, if you knew the Pixies in the '80s.

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There is no 'recycle too much.' That's an oxymoron.

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Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

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When you make a pilot, you've never seen the show before; you don't know what it is.

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I think any person who is starting out in a creative endeavor is not going to be good at it right out of the gate.

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Everything on TV is perfect, and it's so boring.

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I went to film school, and I came in when video art was king, weird stuff was king, and there, you don't have a script as your bible.

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I think when you work with people who are super exceptional, there's simplicity to it because everybody is on the same page in terms of tone.

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A lot of the 'Portlandia' characters and a lot of the moments aren't really TV-worthy, but that's what is so refreshing about seeing them.

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Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what's the avant-garde of comedy.

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You can use cheap technology to get a great look.

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I always want to push myself.

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There's a good family of actors in 'Portlandia.' It's a small community with people who pop up again and again. The show's a little weird show, and you want to grow with the people who are in it, like Dana who plays the chicken waitress, and Ellen who was the adult babysitter.

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If you have, especially with siblings, something like the competition for mom's affection, it just never goes away.

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I love working with nonactors.

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I know, especially in my family, people's feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I'm sure that's true in every family. But, for instance, one year, I came a little bit late to Thanksgiving, and I was supposed to bring a salad. And I just brought a bag of lettuce, and put it in a bowl. Five years later, I heard that my mom was incensed.

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I saw Sleater Kinney perform back when I was in college.

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It's exciting being in the present. You're always reading emails, talking about the future, looking at pictures on Facebook of the past. But living in the present? It's almost a dead medium. I almost want to do a sketch about being in the present.

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