TIM HEIDECKER

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

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

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'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.

There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.

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 think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

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.

The scariest thing about screening a comedy... if you screen a drama, you know, there's no real way to tell in real time if people are enjoying it or not. But in a comedy, it's like, if people aren't laughing, it's sort of scary.

I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks... hardcore... like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

Everyone's heard the same joke a million times and knows the setups. They are tired of the mass-marketed entertainment served on the networks.

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.

I don't really know, I was thinking about that the other day that there aren't a lot of younger up and comers that I'm that interested in, in the comedy world. Everyone seems to be trying to play it safe.

The idea of trust-fund guys who live in Brooklyn in their 30s is really interesting to me. There's a time and a place where that kind of bohemian lifestyle is appropriate, soon after college, in your 20s. But there are people still living that many years later; they haven't evolved to the next phase.

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

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

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

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.