Bobcat Goldthwait
Being shocking and cruel is a commerce. It's an actual valued skill now. The thing that really annoys me, the perception of it is that it takes intelligence, and it doesn't.Collection: Intelligence
I'd still like to work with Woody Allen.
If I ever got to do television, I would be interested in doing different kinds of characters and stories, and television doesn't lend itself to that.
I had a standup act, and I ended up turning it into something that was really watered down and accessible. Something that went from scary and threatening to something that was almost to the point of being corny.
I really like and admire Michael Moore.
Even when I was a kid - I was really young - I was drawn to comedy.
I'm always wondering, if Bigfoot's not real, then why does this creature show up in all these different cultures? I'm always fascinated by that kind of stuff.
Sometimes the wheels just fall off a relationship.
I think, like, in real life, I'm actually quiet, and I mumble a lot. But that's not very lucrative.
I always just felt more comfortable just kind of hiding behind a character than being myself onstage.
The first time I was on Letterman, I was, like, 20 years old, and I was on a show called 'Camping with Barry White Night.'
Although it sounds very trite, I wish people were nice.
Occasionally I'll have a slip, and I might watch 'RuPaul's Drag Race' or something. But for the most part, I am out on the reality shows.
When Will.I.Am punched Perez Hilton, I immediately purchased a bunch of their music.
Trust me: I entertain Joe Six-Pack 30 weekends a year. I don't really think that I'm an elitist.
I just write the stuff that comes out of me, and then after that, I try to get it made. But I don't think, 'Will I get the money?' and 'Who's this made for?'
Marketing movies is hard.
I try not to stick to any one thing, you know. That's always been important to me.
As long as there's a strong theme that I can identify with, that's what makes me interested in writing.
I was actually offered a talk show on CBS at one point, and I just didn't want to do it.
Every time I go to a march or a rally, and I post it on Instagram, people will go, 'I'm going to unfollow you!' And I'm like, 'I used to play arenas. I've lost a lot of fans. I'm fine with that. I've had people unfollowing me for years. You're way behind the times.'
When I first started directing, I could have chosen a more lucrative path, with sitcoms and things like that. But I knew enough after the experiences I had in front of the camera that I was not going to do that, because I was just going to work on my own things or work with people I respected.
In genre movies, you usually not only hate the characters, you sometimes hate them so much that you hate the actors playing them.
I'm really not a fan of letting the audience live vicariously through stuff.
I'm a weird mixture of being cynical but at the same time wanting to live in a world where Bigfoot lives.
I was in this hamster wheel of being famous for being famous, much like a reality star. You would put me on a talkshow, I would say outrageous things. I was just perpetuating myself as a celebrity, and I found that really empty.
At the same time most people were getting out of college, I was offered a buttload of cash to star in a movie. I don't think most students would have said no.
The thing that interested me, there are so many filmmakers I admire - like David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino - they have these themes where there's not much going on, but they were suspenseful.
'The Blair Witch Project' is a great movie.
I think, the first movie I saw that made me go, 'How did they do that?' was 'Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster.'
People seem to think that I'm not aware of how people perceive me. But I'm the one that has to talk about 'Police Academy' all day long 27 years later. I'm totally aware of it.
Be it in the movies I make or on stage, I think it's a trap to keep doing the same thing over and over again.
I don't really pursue acting. I jokingly say that I retired right at the same time people stopped hiring me, but I really don't think I'm very good at it, and I'm not really interested in it anymore as an adult.
I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.
My daughter and my wife inspire me to make movies.
I would love to make a horror picture!
I'm not really trying to reach a big mass of an audience. My movies are done for a tiny, tiny budget, and that affords me to make them more personal.
I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.
When I get to make a movie, I really try to make it on my own terms.
My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.
It's really hard to watch Leno. I set his chair on fire.
I was in Ann Arbor, and I was told that this singer-songwriter guy wanted to meet me. It was Kurt Cobain. Nirvana had just made 'Bleach.' Kurt interviewed me on a college radio station. It was very strange. He was a fan of mine, and he gave me his album.
If Jimmy Kimmel didn't hire me, I wouldn't have the kind of career I have. And I don't know what kind of career I have, but he changed my life.
Listen, you ignorant hillbillies, Lynyrd Skynyrd's dead. They're dead, they're dead, they're dead. The South's not risin' again. The slaves have been emancipated.
I'm kind of a dummy. I make movies and not realize until afterwards, 'Oh, I'm the protagonist.'
I like genre films.
I like movies that don't fit in a category. Like, 'Get Out' - that was one of my favorite movies in a long time, and what is that?
I really like 'Disaster Artist.'
I started doing comedy when I was a teenager with Tom Kenny, who is the voice of SpongeBob. I don't want to name drop, but, I've known him since I was 6.
My heroes, growing up, were people like Andy Kaufman and Groucho Marx and people that very rarely drop the persona.