Portlandia Quotes

'Portlandia' is 100 percent improvised, and I came into this business not knowing anything.

With music, I get to a much darker place. Where I'm able to go with 'Portlandia' has a wider range, but also a brighter range.

Dont take Portlandia too personally - Its just a stupid TV show

I've seen a bunch of the 'Portlandia' episodes, and they're pretty hilarious.

We almost called the 'Portlandia' show 'Stumptown.' That was the original name.

'Portlandia' is the most fun show. When I get a breakdown of what the arc of the story is going to be, I could never in my wildest dreams anticipate the direction.

There's a good family of actors in 'Portlandia.' It's a small community with people who pop up again and again. The show's a little weird show, and you want to grow with the people who are in it, like Dana who plays the chicken waitress, and Ellen who was the adult babysitter.

Something about Portland just really resonated with me.

I'm a big Fred Armisen fan.

I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.

Of course, 'Portlandia' is all about ways that people curate their physical space and their life.

I would really like to do a movie. Schedule-wise I don't know when exactly, but I think it would be great to do a Portlandia movie. Some of my favorite television shows have done it and they've been great. Like Monty Python. I think it would be great.

I think that the most well-intentioned, optimistic, creative people often live for the moment, and for 'Portlandia,' our goals were always very sort of short-term and attainable.

Things that people are doing constantly but aren't thinking about. That's the ultimate 'Portlandia' concept.

A lot of the 'Portlandia' characters and a lot of the moments aren't really TV-worthy, but that's what is so refreshing about seeing them.

When we came to the network, it was a very interesting time where Portlandia had just come on the air and had been very, very successful. I think people had Portlandia-sized expectations for Comedy Bang! Bang!, especially after the first episode was sampled by quite a large number of people. I remember getting the ratings after the first episode, and the network was over the moon about it. And then the second episode tanked so hard. Like, no one watched it. It was a resounding, "Hey, a bunch of people tried your show, and they all hate it!"

I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.

If I'm going to be completely honest, I did not get the appeal of IFC's 'Portlandia' initially.

'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.