Patton Oswalt

The thing that I'm telling you right now, this perspective is maybe a week old. And a week later, there'll be an even better perspective. I'm at that stage now where there aren't gigantic epiphanies. There are awarenesses. And then there are the... Oh, I can choose to react to this awareness, but all this other stuff about me is never going to totally go away. You just have to learn to manage it.

You just have to learn to manage it. One of the most important movies that I think that came out in 1999 and for a long time is the movie The Sixth Sense because – At the end of the movie, the kid is not cured of seeing dead people. What he learns is, this is never going away. This will be here. How can you manage it?

You just have to learn to manage it. One of the most important movies that I think that came out in 1999 and for a long time is the movie The Sixth Sense because – At the end of the movie, the kid is not cured of seeing dead people. What he learns is, this is never going away. This will be here. How can you manage it?

Bruce Willis' character says, what do you think these people are trying to say to you? And the kid is like, maybe this has nothing to do with me. Maybe it has to do with them and I can actually help them and I can actually go live a life. So he's still, he's living a better life at the end. He's still seeing these people. I feel like I'm living a better life. I still get resentful.

Bruce Willis' character says, what do you think these people are trying to say to you? And the kid is like, maybe this has nothing to do with me. Maybe it has to do with them and I can actually help them and I can actually go live a life. So he's still, he's living a better life at the end. He's still seeing these people. I feel like I'm living a better life. I still get resentful.

I still get jealous. I still get wracked with self-doubt. That stuff will continue to happen, but it won't own me. It'll be a thing that's there. I'm like, oh, there you are again. Okay, what's going on? All right, we're going to do this then.

I still get jealous. I still get wracked with self-doubt. That stuff will continue to happen, but it won't own me. It'll be a thing that's there. I'm like, oh, there you are again. Okay, what's going on? All right, we're going to do this then.

It took me so, so long to separate myself from, oh, my God, if I have this thought, then that must be who I am. No, you're allowed any thought. You know, that's the thing. And again, so many great works. Do you think Thomas Harris created one of the most horrifying serial killers ever, fake, but still horrifying, Hannibal Lecter. But when he thought of him, was he like, do I want to kill people?

It took me so, so long to separate myself from, oh, my God, if I have this thought, then that must be who I am. No, you're allowed any thought. You know, that's the thing. And again, so many great works. Do you think Thomas Harris created one of the most horrifying serial killers ever, fake, but still horrifying, Hannibal Lecter. But when he thought of him, was he like, do I want to kill people?

No, but your mind is allowed to imagine horrible things without it being you. I mean, that's the basis of all creativity. But so many people, and I think we've been so poisoned with social media, which is like everything that you tweet, that's who you are. Or if you retweet it, that's who you are. People forget at the very beginning of especially Twitter,

No, but your mind is allowed to imagine horrible things without it being you. I mean, that's the basis of all creativity. But so many people, and I think we've been so poisoned with social media, which is like everything that you tweet, that's who you are. Or if you retweet it, that's who you are. People forget at the very beginning of especially Twitter,

You could retweet somebody saying something ridiculous. And it was understood that you're just holding this up like, can you fucking believe this? You weren't endorsing it. And then somewhere along the line, it shifted. And people are like, you are obviously, that's how you feel.

You could retweet somebody saying something ridiculous. And it was understood that you're just holding this up like, can you fucking believe this? You weren't endorsing it. And then somewhere along the line, it shifted. And people are like, you are obviously, that's how you feel.

So, and I got in some trouble with that because there was a guy, I think his name is like Steve Saylor, total white supremacist dude. And he said something about like... something like political correctness is a war on noticing. Like something, it was so ridiculous. And I just tweeted that, but it was, I was still in the mind of like, look at this fucking idiot.

So, and I got in some trouble with that because there was a guy, I think his name is like Steve Saylor, total white supremacist dude. And he said something about like... something like political correctness is a war on noticing. Like something, it was so ridiculous. And I just tweeted that, but it was, I was still in the mind of like, look at this fucking idiot.

And then people were like, oh, so I guess you, you know, so like, oh. something shifted and I didn't realize I was too slow to see that, you know, you can't do, we were, look, we were way too slow to see that the pointing out racism by being ironically racist or being like, that doesn't work anymore. There's no, there's no abstract thought left in anybody.

And then people were like, oh, so I guess you, you know, so like, oh. something shifted and I didn't realize I was too slow to see that, you know, you can't do, we were, look, we were way too slow to see that the pointing out racism by being ironically racist or being like, that doesn't work anymore. There's no, there's no abstract thought left in anybody.

So you have to actually either point out that something sucks, but you can't personify it the way that like a Ricky Gervais or an Albert Brooks used to do, or even a Don Rickles used

So you have to actually either point out that something sucks, but you can't personify it the way that like a Ricky Gervais or an Albert Brooks used to do, or even a Don Rickles used

you know i think the people when people forget about don rickles it was so brilliant about him and he never explained it because he didn't have to was he's a jewish guy in showbiz he has seen racism you can't even imagine so he would always personify the worst of these people that he saw, but he didn't bother to add that, and you know this is terrible.