Bruce McCulloch Quotes

I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, and actually I'm doing some live shows out in western Canada.

I got through college realizing business was repugnant.

I'm in a rut deep enough to hang posters.

To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry ... like that was a deep thought.

Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.

I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or guys whose girlfriends leave them and they don't quite get it. Guys who just don't quite get it.

I don't really like comedy.

I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me.

No, they're nice guys. They wear girdles, but they're nice guys.

I think you're the grumpy Kid in the Hall, I'm the nice Kid in the Hall.

But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been.

I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble.

Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party.

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.

Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

In terms of the series, we worked separately, getting together in rehearsal to beat out the material.

People always say humour helps to avoid the dark things in life. I think it's the opposite. Humour helps us understand and partner with the sadness and beauty of life. And sometimes, because we're bathed in laughter, we are protected. Or at least, humour can help us see the world differently.