American - Actor | January 14, 1969 -
I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.
Jason Bateman
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It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family,' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed.
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My mother is British; she's from Shrewsbury. She turned me onto 'Monty Python' very early.
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Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium, so a lot of the time, when you're directing a television show, they have a color palette on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined, and you just kind of have to follow the rules.
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I'm not a big, huge star, and so when people see me, it's usually to talk about something I've done, and that's a great conversation to have. That's what we're doing it for.
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I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.
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I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, 'Maybe I'll find some more drama later on in my career.'
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If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we'll just go back to one.
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There's a bunch of different flavours of funny. It's all about the execution of it.
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I'm just going to try to stay employed. That's the tough part in this business.
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I didn't really watch 'Beavis & Butt-head' that much or 'King of the Hill,' but I was a huge 'Office Space' fan.
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There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything.
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