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“I don't believe there is any line bad enough that a good actor can't save.”
“I wanted BoJack to be more of a cautionary figure than someone that you aspire to be.”
“When you surround yourself with white people, you continue to hire white people, and when you make an effort to hire people of color, that does bring in different stories and different people.”
“I really liked the idea of a talking horse in a human world.”
“I'd like to think that 'Bojack,' in some ways, pushes the edges of what some people think an adult animated show can be. That was an intention of mine while making the show.”
“There's a widening of an idea of what a TV show can be or how it can be told, and that's partially in the diversity of the creators and the stories. Because there are so many new networks and streaming services popping up every day that need more content, there are more opportunities to take risks.”
“Saying someone's a fan of animation is as silly as saying someone's a fan of live action. That can mean anything.”
“I've written six seasons of a TV show with great help from an incredible staff of writers and other collaborators, but I still feel like I don't know what I'm doing. I've kind of freed myself of the expectation that I ever will.”
“I think I am someone who is very interested in structure and different ways of delivering jokes.”
“When I first moved to Los Angeles, I was staying with a friend of a friend of a friend up in the Hollywood Hills. I was in this tiny little closest paying $400 a month in this beautiful house.”
“If you try to guess what people are gonna think, you're chasing the wrong thing.”
“Any show that kind of relish the damage of its main character without really investigating what that damage does, where it's from or what it means, is a show I think needs to be taken down a peg.”
“I think life doesn't necessarily have an endgame.”
“I have a short attention span.”
“I don't know if animation is a style. It's a format.”
“Whenever I talk about how good season two of 'The Comeback' is, people ask, 'Do I have to see season one?' And I say, 'You get to see season one.'”
“I think we're all trying our hardest, and a lot of times we do bad things and need to do more good things. We need to be more caring, more forgiving, more loving.”
“What I also love about Lorrie Moore stories is they take me a long time to read. They're not easy for me because each sentence, I feel like, is so rich and dense, it just sends me off in a thousand directions.”
“Our better angels get clouded and we're more selfish than we should be, more anxious or neurotic or desperate or self-sabotaging. Crueler, even. But I do think there's hope for everyone... I think redemption is possible for anybody.”
“I really believe that comedy is an incredible tool, and you can use it in many ways.”