Jason Gann Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

There's darkness everywhere. You just can't see it because the sun is such an attention-whore.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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