Aziz Ansari: I don't want that kind of approval, but I want more respect for it because it's such a unique art form. It's so much of one person unfiltered to an audience. I've been trying to develop movies and all this shit, and, god, there are so many people involved with that process. You can have an idea and you have to deal with a lot of people giving you notes. And then if you end up making the movie, there are so many other people involved — the actors, the director, the editors. It's not one person's singular thing.
But with stand-up it's like: That's all me. That's something that I thought was funny, that I developed myself. No one can really tell me anything about it or be like, "Mm, can you change that? That doesn't work," because I'm like, "No, it works — it just got a huge laugh."
Pitchfork Interview: Aziz Ansari / By Carrie Battan / July 22, 2012
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