Michael Showalter Quotes (14 Quotes)

I never really loved the acting, and I was never really that good at it, ... I never felt like I was better at this than other people. I started finding that my true passion is writing.

He'll cook too complicated a dinner, and it backfires. Or, he'll plan the whole night out minute by minute.

In each case, the minute you see them, you know they're wrong, ... The instant they walk on the screen, they give you some information that immediately makes the audience turn to the person sitting next to them and say, 'He's wrong for her. It'll never work out.'

Baxters overdo it. The Baxter is the guy who's going to take a girl to the best restaurant in town, having no clue if it's appropriate for her. All that matters is, it's the best. Anything recommended as the most romantic place, that's where you'll find the Baxter.

In contrast, the non-Baxter will simply go with his gut he has a spontaneous, 'Hey, what's that thing across the street' thing, ... And, of course, it's perfect.

David Wain and I had been writing a spoof of romantic comedies, and we started thinking about this stereotypical character. We started imagining an entire movie about him.

There are a million subsets. There's a-- hole Boyfriend Baxter - like Drew Barrymore 's old boyfriend in 'The Wedding Singer,'

She's sweet and she's nice, she's just not Andie MacDowell. God forbid, you're not Andie MacDowell. You're just a person, ... I'm playing with that whole idea that the characters have these quirks about their personalities that we've been conditioned to believe equal wrongness.

Michael, David and I get along very well, ... That is why we have been able to stay collaborating for so long. The State was a much more tumultuous collaboration, that was a lot of fighting, and a lot of people needing their way. We had 10 very strong opinions in there, very strong comedic voices in one room is too many cooks.

The character of Elliot is one of a polite, chivalrous, modern Jimmy Stuart who you do not see much of in films today,

I have a theory. You were supposed to ask her to dance. She was content, not happy. Ultimately the problem is that you're not willing to take risks. You've got to be willing to take risks. Are you going to act or are you just going to sit there and let possibly the biggest decision of your life pass you by

Every character is likeable and jarring at the same time,

Showalter, 35, came up with the moniker for the arrested-development archtype because he wanted it to sound universal. But Shlomo Why not It couldn't hurt You know who he is, ... Baxter is the Mensch. He's the Pickle Guy from the film 'Crossing Delancey,' that nice Jewish boy who the girl discovers is not really the one she had in mind.

John Roberts is a Baxter. Have you seen his hair It's parted with a snow shovel