Quotes from Tim Heidecker

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee.

I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.

At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.

Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare!

In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I'd like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. That would be fantastic. If Herman Cain became president, there'd be a certain sort of morbid curiosity for me.

I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work ' or, 'This is how a character must behave.'

My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.

Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny, 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh, that don't make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.

There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.

I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee.

If you go to Sundance, the experience that I've had there as a viewer is... there's like a hundred movies there, and you've got to figure out what movies are sold out, what can you see. Sometimes you go to see movies that you don't know anything about because it just works into your schedule.

I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show ' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

The idea that everyone's opinion is valuable is sometimes up for question.

I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work,' or, 'This is how a character must behave.'

Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it.

I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.

If you go to Sundance, the experience that I've had there as a viewer is... there's like a hundred movies there, and you've got to figure out what movies are sold out, what can you see. Sometimes you go to see movies that you don't know anything about because it just works into your schedule.