Jonah Hill Quotes

It's so hard to make a comedy pilot and have a cool idea.

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.

I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

With 'Korra' we've really taken a lot of time to craft it. We're aiming pretty high, and in order to keep up the quality it just takes a lot of time and a lot or work.

I'm a lifelong Simpsons fanatic and I wanted to create my own animated show, one day.

When I read both pilots for 'Breaking Bad' and the 'Michael J. Fox Show,' I turned to my husband in real life, and I'm like, 'That is an amazing script.'

'Ice Age' felt like stage acting. You'd write a sequence, and sometimes you'd submit pages, but other times, I would actually perform it for the directors and producer in my office.

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.

I've actually always started with what feels most natural. Which is, the people who surround me in my daily life. So, the first show I ever wrote, which is called 'Surface Transit,' was based in part on people I knew from my family. Co-workers, ex-boyfriends. All of that kind of thing.

I always find the more you can draw on real life characters, people, situations, it works better. Certainly for designing a character, I prefer to draw on real people rather than other guys I've seen in movies, rather than 'here's my version of Clint Eastwood' or whoever.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.

Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

'The Simpsons' is an especially collaborative show.

In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part.

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animators the same way I'd sit with my actors and cast them.

One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.