A biography for Tim Heideckerhasn’t been written yet.
“I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.”
“There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.”
“Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.”
“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.”
“Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.”
“A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.”
“There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.”
“The idea that everyone's opinion is valuable is sometimes up for question.”
“When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks... hardcore... like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.”
“When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.”
“Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.”
“In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I'd like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. That would be fantastic. If Herman Cain became president, there'd be a certain sort of morbid curiosity for me.”
“My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.”
“I don't have a big hang-up about my body.”
“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 was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.”
“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.”
“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.”
“On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.”
“Have you ever wondered how to commit human sacrifice and destroy all the evidence while having a delicious meal all at the same time? It’s called cannibalism and all it means is eating another human being. It’s not that hard.”