We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.
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Related He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. EDWIN EDWARDS Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's... LAURA OSNES When you're telling a story, the best stories, every character has an arc. Every one. And that a... ROY CONLI My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-... KATHERINE MOENNIG [The second side to this one, according to Dent, was that in Indianapolis he was warming up an hour ... TAYLOR DENT To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ... BRENT M. JONES People go on about places like Starbucks being unpersonal and all that, but what if that's what you ... NICK HORNBY We kept insisting that so long as you cared about the characters and there was a universal aspect to... DAVID CRANE That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you ... AARON PAUL There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one. ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking ... ELLEN DEGENERES The power was out for about an hour and a half, SCOTT GRIMES How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS It was one of those years where we got off to a good start and had good chemistry all year long. I'm... KIRBY LAW After an hour and a half, I think the delegation decided that that was long enough to try to fix the... SEAN MCCORMACK When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy fl... FINN JONES It was not a long delay, but at that hour, it was inconvenient, and we regret that. CAROL SKORNICKA Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER Our half-hour show, when all is said and done, is less than 21 minutes long. BILL LAWRENCE It had become a very long and complex process and we thought it was better to withdraw so we could f... GIL SHWED It was great to see our team execute, move the ball, take great shots, play defense, it was nice to ... C. VIVIAN STRINGER Other than a long, 12-play drive, that was exactly what we needed. That gave us all the momentum and... JEFF WILSON It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep. JOHN JAY CHAPMAN This was a good overall effort. It was the kind of thing we've talked to our kids about all along: F... DON HARVEY That's been the focus all year long. So it's good to get one step closer to where we want to be. CHAD OLSON I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that th... JON FAVREAU It was an 11-and-a-half hour operation, and they nearly lost him twice. They didn't know he had only... CATHERINE HOLLAND After going to theater school, and then subsequently dropping out, I would say that when I first wen... THOMAS MIDDLEDITCH What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera sh... ADAM GREEN I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do th... AARON STATON At the time, that fish was just 15 pounds off the all-tackle record. It was just an incredible fish ... GEORGE POVEROMO The arc of the American story is long, it is bumpy and uncertain, but it always bends toward a more ... JEH JOHNSON Life is a tightrope to keep your balance you have to keep on going. If you fall off it is game over.... GARY F EVANS... Movie making is such a long process, and they only use that one take, although you do it over and ov... SAVION GLOVER Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I ... ELIZABETH GEORGE We are the kind of people who obsess over one word, ... but we have only one shot to get it right in... AMY TAN While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. JEFFREY ARCHER The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was i... AARON SORKIN It just started off when he was telling a story about his favorite players and his family, then it l... MARTEL STRANGE We have to be able to play the full game. We have to get over being a one-half team. I was really di... DON FLANAGAN Daisy Bowman,” he said unevenly, “I’d spend eternity in hell for one hour with you.” “Is t... LISA KLEYPAS It was more daunting taking on the characters of Baby and Johnny, and making people believe we were ... KYM VALENTINE The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA I felt like I wasted more than one shot there because it was a hole where you can expect to make a b... SHIHO OYAMA It was expected the way both teams played in the first half, after the delay and one team sitting on... COLIN CUSHMAN And the weird weird thing about this story of Angela's Ring was that it didn't even have a point to ... CHRIS BECKETT Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga, Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata... HUSEYN RAZA It's about individual women and their personal tragedies, ... The play traces the arc of the grievin... BRAD WRIGHT It was a long story, and sometimes she grew quiet and cried - and during those times he leaned over ... SARAH J. MAAS I appreciate the irony. As ironic as this is for us, it happens to other sites. Most privacy inciden... DAVE STEER We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness... ANTONIN ARTAUD It was huge because I knew we had a target on us all year long. A lot of teams were gunning for Unio... JOSH MEEKER It was great to see our team execute. We really moved the ball, we got good shots and we were lookin... C. VIVIAN STRINGER It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Oh, absolutely, it felt more serious than your typical job. One of the things that got us through ho... JOHN C. REILLY It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for... GEORGE GURDJIEFF It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for... GURDJIEFF If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was... DEMETRI MARTIN 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We took advantage of the long ball when we had a strong wind to our backs in the first half. The sec... ROB CHAPMAN When I was doing 'A Disappearing Number' in Plymouth, we had to go on an hour and a half lat... SIMON MCBURNEY The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative wa... PENELOPE LIVELY He wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsun... LAINI TAYLOR We beat a rival in what I thought was a classic game. But we can't settle. The season's only half ov... BOBBY BYERLY The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ... CHRISTINA ENGELA One of the things I want to do with 'Desi Rascals' is go a bit deeper into the characters an... GURINDER CHADHA For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of be... SARAH MACLEAN When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH 'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous in... DANIEL HANDLER I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day. MITCH ALBOM There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it... IAN MCDIARMID People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into ge... CHUCK PALAHNIUK This one was tough today. It was much closer today than in recent years, and our kids came through f... MARC PAGLIA Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long. ISAAC HANSON Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Ca... EDGAR WRIGHT Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long... CHRISTOPHER SHAYS It was definitely a goal of mine. It was a long training camp and it was a long rookie camp to go th... ANDREW ALBERTS I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches i... DAVID WALLIAMS 'Days of Our Lives' was an insane schedule. You're doing a whole one-hour show in a day.... CHARLES SHAUGHNESSY Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was h... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If they would give us a half-hour one day next week, we would call off the protest. PAUL VOGEL We had the ball to start the half and ran a set play and we couldn't execute the play. If we can't r... BARRY HINSON Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the c... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS That was one of our goals. We focus on one goal at a time, one meet at a time. ERIC OSMER It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time. MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable object... WILLIAM E. HOLLER Finally I just [was] so bad I couldn't do it anymore. I was just really irritated with my game and w... OLIN BROWNE This is only half the story. Nokia is clearly having good volumes. Now we need to see what the margi... DAMIEN CHEW We hadn't played in over a week. Anytime a team doesn't get to play within however long, they're goi... CLAIRE COGGINS Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of'... TARAN KILLAM When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad. NICK HORNBY Back in my pulp-mag days, I worked from about 8:30 to noon, took an hour off for lunch, and worked a... ROBERT SILVERBERG I am not going to tell you my name, not yet at any rate.' A queer half-knowing, half-humorous look c... J.R.R. TOLKIEN It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. BRYANT H. MCGILL
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