Tim Heidecker – 12 Quotes

12 Quotes by Tim Heidecker

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.

– Tim Heidecker

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.

– Tim Heidecker

I’m always in situations where you can’t be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

– Tim Heidecker

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

– Tim Heidecker

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.

– Tim Heidecker

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

– Tim Heidecker

A lot of movies aren’t intended for everybody.

– Tim Heidecker

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.’

– Tim Heidecker

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.

– Tim Heidecker

I’ll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee.

– Tim Heidecker

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.

– Tim Heidecker

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.

– Tim Heidecker