Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself.
The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop.
Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.
I spend a lot of time thinking about what I do and how it fits into the scheme of things. I won't do something just because it's funny.
Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U. S. A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.
So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.
Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldnt do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, Wow, they never told me no!
You know, the big Valbowski is a lot like concrete mix. You know? You just get it a little wet, take a step back, and watch it get ROCK HARD!
My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.
I've done things to my body, mechanically, that I'll never do again. I've done stunts that I shouldn't have done 10, 11, 12 times. I've broken a ton of bones on sets.