“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.”
Sam is hungry and feels like ham but can he abide by the rules of the deli? Sam Simmons is a Wallstud..he divides the room. He is not good at people, he has a weird looking head, his paranoid fantasies clutter the gutters of his mind and he doesn't look good in jeans.
Sam Simmons is one of the most daring and unconventional comics in Australia if not the world. Completely original and vastly absurd, he has one foot firmly planted into the soils of reality, and the other rooted deep into the psyche of being silly. TEDxSydney 2012 took place on Saturday 26 May 2012 at Carriageworks.
Saw this guy live a couple weeks ago at Soho Theatre ... loved every minute of it. He's inspiring the shit out of me. Thanks Sam.
P.S. Do you mind if I contact your agent about being in my short film?
“You Don’t Grow on a secure path.”
“Always look beyond and above yourself, always try to improve on yourself, always strive to elevate your craft ... that’s what he taught me.”
“In order to make delicious food you have to eat delicious food … without good taste you can’t make good food.”
“You can make something funny with the camera.”
“Without new ideas success can become stale.”
“You can apply comedy to any genre ... as long as you understand comedy.”
“It’s not the strength of the body that counts, it’s the strength of the spirit.”
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes by Jon Ronson.
A group of us have formed a bit of a collective. We've affectionately called it 'CHUBBY' ... it's meant to mean that we're fat with ideas rather than a morning stiffy - I'll explain more once we figure it all out.
Anyway, I posed the 'What's you Top 20 Films?' question to the guys a few days ago. I wasn't fishing for the classic 20 films that define cinema over the last 100 years, it was more of a get to know your film tastes Top 20.
There was a strict NO judgement policy.
Here's mine (in no particular order):
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Castle
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Fight Club
Step Brothers
40 Year Old Virgin
A Serious Man
Pi (Mathematical Symbol)
LA Story
Punch Drunk Love
There Will Be Blood
Kingpin
Ghostbusters
Back To Future I
Natural Born Killers
Spinal Tap
Birdman
In A World
Lars and the Real Girl
Life Aquatic
Post your Top 20 in the comments.
“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.”
“Film tells its story through images, not just words.”