David Wain Quotes

#1. I'm a huge David Wain fan. He's one of my best friends now, but he just makes me laugh continually, much to the annoyance of his wife.

Paul Rudd

#2. I feel like there is something about having a copacetic world POV that helps in making a comedy. Like, David Wain has such a particular way of looking at the world. It helps when everyone can see behind his eyes, you know?

Kathryn Hahn

#3. I've been a big fan of David Wain's and was honored to get to be in one of his projects.

Bill Hader

#4. When 'MacGruber' came out, David Wain was one of the first people who publicly championed it.

Bill Hader

#5. I don't believe in paying for sex. Which is why I'll never again pay for a woman's dinner.

David Wain

#6. I've come to the possible conclusion that being a comedic writer/director is like running track. You do it for a certain amount of time and then you have to stop. Or you at least have to accept that you're not going to be at the top of your game. And that's OK.

David Wain

#7. I love your independence, I love that you don't swoon, I love that you'll fight me with your last breath if you think I'm wrong, and if I ever have to catch you, I swear I'll make sure you're standing on your feet as quickly as you can manage it.

Dianna Hardy

#8. I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.

Ray Brown

#9. We thought we were going to go up against SNL on Saturday Nights - that would have changed things so much that it's almost impossible to speculate what might have happened.

David Wain

#10. Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

David Wain

#11. One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

David Wain

#12. Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.

David Wain

#13. It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal. And the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down.

Olivia

#14. Self Help: When you really stop and think about it, is there any other kind?

Evan Dorren

#15. The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

Orson Scott Card

#16. I hope I don't just do the exact same thing my whole life. I also feel like it's really hard to make comedy. It's almost impossible for comedy filmmakers and directors to stay relevant as they get older.

David Wain

#17. We have a solemn responsibility to cooperate with the President and produce a program that is neither his blueprint nor our blueprint but a combination of the two.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#18. Even the harmful and awkward and stupid things?" asked Sunday. "There are reasons for those?"
"Especially those." said Joy.

Alethea Kontis

#19. One of the essential tenets of Grisha theory was "like calls to like," but Morozova seemed to believe that if the world could be broken down to the same small parts, each Grisha should be able to manipulate them.

Leigh Bardugo

#20. I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.

David Wain

#21. I love summer. Because it means I can wear a bikini top and shorts, even just to go shopping.

David Wain

#22. I love having an open seat next to me on the train. What's even better is when my seat is open too because I just stayed home.

Demetri Martin

#23. Ya smell like honey," he said.
"I'm allergic to bees," she whispered.
"I'll do my best not to sting ya, love.

Michelle M. Pillow

#24. If hell's in store for us someday, one of its most refined forms of torture will be to lock a person naked in a room filled with framed photos of his era.

Gunter Grass

#25. Highland has changed my entire way of working with scripts. I use it every day.

David Wain

#26. I am not one of those guys who pretends not to enjoy his own work.

David Wain

#27. I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

David Wain

#28. Perhaps that is what growing up means: slowly realizing how right your mother has been.

Sheila Kohler

#29. They say time heals all wounds. But does it close the gaps too? Maybe it can. Maybe in a year it turns an eight-year time gap into dust. Maybe it turns a girl who didn't know what she wanted into someone who became certain. Maybe it turns twenty-one stolen kisses into endless given ones.

Lauren Blakely

#30. Everyone who went to college and especially people working in media seem to know at least one person from Shaker Heights. There's just something about that place that made people go to the coast.

David Wain

#31. I knew what he meant. It was hard to allow change into your life. We all struggled with it, but without change, the greatest moments would pass you by.

Liz Schulte

#32. Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.

David Wain

#33. You could be making so much money, and your bank statement gets bigger and bigger, but if you're not psyched to go to work in the morning, it doesn't matter. It sucks. So you wanna just be psyched to see the people that you work with, and have fun with. Then you've won.

David Wain