Raphael Bob-Waksberg Quotes

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Profession : Comedian

Birth : August 17, 1984

I was very moved by shows that combined things that were funny and sad. I remember liking 'Simpsons' episodes in which emotions were central.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

When you surround yourself with white people, you continue to hire white people, and when you make an effort to hire people of color, that does bring in different stories and different people.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I was staying with a friend of a friend of a friend up in the Hollywood Hills. I was in this tiny little closest paying $400 a month in this beautiful house.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I think we're so often, as writers, afraid of writing something that is less than perfect, and that fear paralyzes us. I'm a big fan of writing less than perfect things.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I think you need to think of yourself as a flawed human being with aspirations for goodness and never start to think, 'Oh, I am a good guy. These other people are bad guys. They're dumb, I am smart.'

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I think life doesn't necessarily have an endgame.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

A lot of Christmas episodes feel like stories in quotation marks. Uh, a homeless guy comes to live with them and they all learn a lesson. That didn't come from an organic place.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I named him Todd Chavez after a guy I went to middle school with, whose last name was Chavez and who I always liked. He had a good energy, and something about his spirit felt Todd-appropriate.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

For a long time in my adolescence, comedy was the only tool I had for communication and dealing with the world and dealing with people - I didn't know any other lens in which to do it.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

When we started on 'BoJack,' it was understood that the Netflix model was to give shows time to find an audience, and to build that audience, and I remember being told, 'We expect the biggest day 'BoJack' Season 1 is going to have is when we launch 'BoJack' Season 2.'

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I've written six seasons of a TV show with great help from an incredible staff of writers and other collaborators, but I still feel like I don't know what I'm doing. I've kind of freed myself of the expectation that I ever will.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Part of being a writer is just getting it in your bones, getting the muscle memory down, just doing it.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I don't believe there is any line bad enough that a good actor can't save.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I am really excited by the form of short fiction.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky' by Lesley Nneka Arimah blew my mind.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I'm very interested in telling darker stories that maybe you are not used to seeing in animation. Especially because in animation you don't see those kind of stories.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

If you are stuck on a problem, go for a walk and think about something else for a little bit. Going for a walk is very helpful for a writer because if you are staring at a blank page of a computer screen there is all this pressure.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

It is so easy now to never get bored because we have our phones with us all the time and we are always looking at stuff. I think when we get bored we are the most creative.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg