I joked recently that I thought 30 seconds a day for three years would be the best way to enjoy it, and I'm going to stand by that statement..

It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to expre….

We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else..

As somebody who wanted to be creative, growing up, I remember always thinking that the thing I had going against me was Orange County because it seem….

What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it..

I always liked magic. I was always embarrassed by liking magic because I liked the fact that they're just lying..

But, you have to watch them in order. That's very important because, as it turns out, stories have to be told in order. It's like reading a novel. Th….

Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they….

One of the things I liked about bringing this show back was that it gives people something to look forward to. In doing the show, I was very aware th….

My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something..

The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints..

One of the best ways into the business is to get a job with a production, which you can do by cold-calling or by getting your résumé out there, and a….

Thanks to the critics and thanks to the Emmys, we got all sorts of great reviews and notices and awards, at the start. Part of it is that it's great ….

It's very hard, I think, for critics to write positive reviews, because there's not that much to say about something you like. You can kind of say 'I….

Television is so much about continuing to work with people..

For the most part you are dealing with jealousy, you are dealing with love, you're dealing with hatred, you are dealing with revenge and all of these….

It's much easier to say negative things in a review..

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time..

Everybody keeps falling back to the same patterns without doing too much dramaturgy..

Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'.

One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based..