Matt Nix Quotes

#1. I really gravitate to the comedy of tonal contrasts. I hope that doesn't sound insufferably pretentious. What I mean is people having reactions to things that seem inappropriate, or being happy in an apparently unhappy situation.

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#2. I'm always looking for what's something that Bradley Whitford's character can say that is completely outrageous and completely wrong, but in a double-reverse way is actually totally right. I don't really like where there's a story and you lay a few jokes on top of it.

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#3. The idea of the writer/producer in television is much younger than people think it is.

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#4. I'm fortunate to have had my own level of success. My joys in life are I've got three little kids, and I got to buy a house that I really like, and everyone should have that.

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#5. I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and rule-following.

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#6. I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths.

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#7. I really like transgressive characters that have an alternate world view. I've actually written a fair number of kids movies, and I'll insert these kid-friendly articulate sociopaths who are usually yelling at the children for their own benefit.

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#8. Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support.

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#9. I am very conscious on a daily basis of how extraordinarily blessed I am to get to do what I do and work with the people that I work with, so I make a practice of being grateful.

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#10. I am fortunate in that I am motivated to do what I do by just a really goofy desire to do it. Maybe I have demons that are hidden away someplace, and I'll discover mine someday.

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#11. Everybody should have a television show. Let's all get television shows!

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#12. I have to say, as a showrunner, being niche-y is kind of a great thing.

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#13. One of the things that I have always been interested in is the actual experience of people in their lives as opposed to what we think their experience should be.

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#14. I'm a rule follower. But there is also a part of me, clearly, that doesn't follow them.

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#15. The funny thing for me is, I have never lived in a network world.

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#16. Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.

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#17. People joke about me that I talk in voiceovers. I have that sort of inflection. But I do talk in voiceovers. I have done it my whole life.

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