American - Actor | July 31, 1979 -
My goal is not to make popular things. My goal is to make the things I love as popular as I can make them.
B. J. Novak
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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
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There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
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I do not have very much office experience.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.
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I'm a believer in trusting the director.
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Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
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I remember my mum coming into my bedroom when I was lying awake one night, and she asked what I was thinking of... And I was telling her about the inventions I would invent, and she said, 'Can't you ever just think stupid thoughts?'
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I think I am very proud of being associated with quality things. So if I were massively famous for doing massively beloved things, yeah, that sounds great.
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