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Tim Heidecker
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Tim Heidecker
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: February 3
Actor
Comedian
Film Director
Musician
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Television Actor
Television Director
Television Producer
Allentown
Pennsylvania
Timothy Richard Heidecker
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More quotes by Tim Heidecker
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.
Tim Heidecker
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.
Tim Heidecker
Just because we can shoot something that looks like a movie doesn't mean we should. Sometimes if something looks too good, it's not funny. Some things need to look good, because we think it's funny that you'd spend so much time and be so precious about such a stupid idea.
Tim Heidecker
When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.
Tim Heidecker
Most of my ideas just come out funny.
Tim Heidecker
I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.
Tim Heidecker
When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.
Tim Heidecker
Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, This is our story, and this is who we are, and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.
Tim Heidecker
We use all the takes that no one would ever use and often the moments before we say action, or before we say cut. No one's ever called and complained or anything like that. Everyone's just so grateful to get the work and to be on TV and all that.
Tim Heidecker
When people come in to act on the show, we say, Just be extremely dry and not funny. Let the idea be the joke. That holds true through a lot of our stuff.
Tim Heidecker
I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.
Tim Heidecker
Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare!
Tim Heidecker
In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.
Tim Heidecker
When you travel, specifically for our show, you get inspired by rest stops, Cracker Barrel. Middle-America people are perfect.
Tim Heidecker
Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.
Tim Heidecker
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.
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 think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.
Tim Heidecker
We, the comics that we like, we're all, like, post-humor.
Tim Heidecker
Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.
Tim Heidecker
