Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego’s regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society’s longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we’d naturally do.
I’ve discovered a new video game called owning my home.
I’m always trying to gain and keep the audience’s respect. I always want them to know that the show doesn’t think they’re stupid for watching.
As humans, reality for us is largely based on other people’s perceptions. If there’s 20 bodies in your crawl space but you haven’t been caught yet, you tell yourself you’re still a birthday clown, and that’s how you keep doing it.
Don’t be so hard on yourself, don’t put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you’ll be perfect when you’re dead.
My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.
All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They’re all addictive.
I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.
I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it’s my job to overcome it.
You can’t tell the audience — well, you can, but I don’t like to tell the audience — that anything they’re watching doesn’t matter.
Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He’s always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.