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Sketch Quotes
Where every finished idea begins.
This set covers sketch in two senses - the comedy-writing kind, rewritten around a table until the jokes land, and the drawing kind, the pencil outline a dress or a film starts from before anything is fixed. Both share a respect for the rough first pass, a theme also found in our Creativity collection.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd worked on music docs for years. It felt like writing a novel. By the time I got to Keith Richards, it felt like making a sketch.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Commercial directing felt like a very natural transition from my comedy, sketch, music video directing experience.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.
- Pray
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pray to the shrine of 'Mr. Show.' It saved sketch comedy.
- Clothes
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I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.
- Feel
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At this point, I feel fairly comfortable in terms of performance. I think having a sketch background actually helps a lot. Because my background is acting, and stand-up, in a lot of ways, is acting.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!'
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I'm more of a sketch guy than a standup.
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- Nov 07, 2020