B. J. Novak
B. J. Novak
Benjamin Joseph Manaly "B. J." Novakis an American actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter, author, and director. He is most widely known for being a writer and executive producer of The Office, in which he also played Ryan Howard...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth31 July 1979
CountryUnited States of America
basketball reality people
If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?
love-you lines thanks
Mindy Kaling gets her own line in the acknowledgments, as previously negotiated by her representatives. Thanks, Mindy. I love you and you're the best.
type hopefully persons
Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
office
I do not have very much office experience.
directors believer
I'm a believer in trusting the director.
watches comedy glad
There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
opportunity people design
Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
creative world way
I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
writing laughing people
The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.
real air office
The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
long remember ends
Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.
perfect type expected
Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.
thinking giving important
I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.
regret perfectionism plus
Regret is just perfectionism plus time.