When I was a kid, I was a fan of comedy. I always loved Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Dave Letterman – not an actor, obviously, but I’m still impressed by his wit. I wanted to emulate them because they made me laugh. Will Arnett Read Quote
What came out of ‘The LEGO Movie’ was the idea of ‘Batman’s the Dark Knight’, so why is he so moody? What’s going on? Why is he so banged up? And wouldn’t it be fun to get in there and explore that? Will Arnett Read Quote
The voice for ‘Surly’ is, of course, very close to my own voice, but it’s informed a lot by this story, by the arc and the animation and working with the whole creative team on ‘The Nut Job’ in finding what really works. Will Arnett Read Quote
But since day one, we’ve always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it’s not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn’t know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was… in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it’s always been. Will Arnett Read Quote
Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters. Will Arnett Read Quote
When it sort of finally sets in that you’re not going to be doing that anymore… it’s disappointing. Will Arnett Read Quote
There’s a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful. Will Arnett Read Quote
