Joel Hodgson Quotes
"Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: First)
"Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: Friend, Song)
"When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: Movies, Building)
"Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: Money, Time, First)
"Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: Science, End, Mystery, Theater)
"A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: Science, Mystery, Theater)
"Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: Ideas)
"The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: Thought, American, Name)
"The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: Internet, Television)
"The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: First)
"Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: Culture, Living, Sense)
"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."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: People)
"Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: Science, Mystery, Theater)
"If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: Being, Press)
"Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: Pet, Brother, Thought, Name)
"But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: People, Being)
"But after that, I was extremely happy with the story and the look of the show at the beginning of season two - everything was working together. I felt like it was finished conceptually."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: Beginning)
"South Park started as a little video Christmas card."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: Christmas)
"They would hear 3000 and think it was the year 3000, I was hoping it would sort of disorient them and prepare them for the strange message they were about to receive."
- Joel Hodgson