American - Actor | June 7, 1978 -
In Tulsa, it was sports or nothing.
Bill Hader
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I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.
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I loved growing up in Tulsa.
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'SNL' is really hard to do when you're single and living alone. And then it's pretty tough when you're married, because you don't see your spouse.
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I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.
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I like doing a lot of research, and then you get there, you're in wardrobe, and then you're just reacting to what the other person is doing. The other actor is reacting to what you're doing, and it's this great back and forth. Because you've done all this research, you can use some of it or throw a lot of it out. You can get lost in it.
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'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.
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When 'MacGruber' came out, David Wain was one of the first people who publicly championed it.
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There are some really funny women at 'SNL,' man.
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In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.
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Las Vegas, New Mexico has had a lot of great movies shot there.
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In 'Winter's Bone,' it's literally the director and the camera operator. That's it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I mean? Like, 8 people.
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