Jason Gann Quotations

I really think that you can extract a lot of comedy out of really dramatic, intense situations.

I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy.

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

Sometimes girls would come in and audition and they'd talk down, and it was like, "No, no, talk to the human eye level."

I'm fascinated in the children within adults.

The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.

I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.

I've been insane for a long time. An ex-girlfriend of mine once asked, "Is it true that all comedians are depressed?," and I said, "Every one I know is."

It's always difficult when you want to do something really new, and you also want it to reach the masses, because the majority of people want to see what they've already seen before, or that they're already familiar with. To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult.

I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.

I came to America so that I could work with the best and be the best.

I've had some offers from furries - people that want to have sex with dudes in furry suits. I've had some interesting requests. There's some great fans.

You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now. I will be in it, if I'm the best man for the job, but it really is about creating characters and shows.

I do have a couple of pets, but I am determined to keep them out of the media spotlight.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

I'm much more a writer than an actor. Although I have a great respect for that and I enjoy acting still, it really is about the world that I'm creating. That's where my future is.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.

The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.

Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.

It's great to write for actors when you know who they are. I think I prefer it.

I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.

My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about 'Wilfred.

I often don't like seeing how different things are made. I'm not a big fan of behind the scenes stuff.

There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.