when someone says something is 'impossible' I'm now getting better at realising they mean they can't imagine it themselves, and moving onto talking to more interesting and imaginative people
de dicto / de re
as all the smart kids say
Anand
"Blazing Saddles could not be made today."
Mel Brooks: "We couldn't make it back then either but we still did it."
Every so often, some washed up sitcom dude do this sort of thing where they pretend that they made some truly edgy and controversial comedy that couldn't be made today, and it's just like... you're saying this about THE OFFICE?
