Kim Shaw Quotes

I'm like a Dilbert cartoon.

If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'

People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.

The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.

'Office Space' I loved doing.

I can do a Green Day joke and people actually get it.

For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity - I just don't want to do that.

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

I never worked in an office in my life.

WCW wasn't what I thought it should be. I thought it could be better. I would make suggestions, but nobody would want to hear them. They think you want their job. Please. It would be easier doing their job because they're used to doing nothing.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

Bureaucracies cling to their office space, their secretaries [assistants], their official cars, and their every allotted dollar and personnel position with a tenacity that drowning men might well envy.

My motto is 'In Tina Fey I trust.'

People will come up, and they'll talk about 'Misery.' But a lot of people will talk about 'Waterboy.'

Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am talking about those hour-long recurring meetings, devoid of a clear agenda, and attended by many. I dread them.

I didn't really watch 'Beavis & Butt-head' that much or 'King of the Hill,' but I was a huge 'Office Space' fan.

I saw 'A New Hope' on my Vidamax because I came a little late to the party.

'How I Met Your Mother' - I would do it again in a heartbeat. It was so much fun going to work every day... we laughed and laughed. It was just pure, lovely fun.

Writing about corporate America had sapped my energy, disappointed the editors, and unnerved me.

If I've only got a career if I bring David Brent back, you can have it.