A biography for Tim Heideckerhasn’t been written yet.
“It's never fun to read death threats.”
“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!”
“Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.”
“Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny, 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh, that don't make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Most of my ideas just come out funny.”
“I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.”
“I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.”
“I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.”
“I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.”
“I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work,' or, 'This is how a character must behave.'”
“Nothing impresses the ladies like a clean, pressed pair of khakis and a large pattern shirt featuring either classic cars, mojitos or men playing golf.”
“There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.”
“There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.”
“I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.”