I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the ep…

- Lucas Neff

I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear.

- Lucas Neff

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

- Lucas Neff

Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because …

- Lucas Neff

I rarely accept things on blind faith, especially the orthodoxy of any given practice, or any given practicum. I'm like, "Oh come on. Is this the way…

- Lucas Neff

There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of embrace who the actors a…

- Lucas Neff

There is a somewhat-surprising, somewhat totally predictable paucity of struggle in entertainment television. I do like being a part of a show featur…

- Lucas Neff

When we make jokes about being lazy, or things that look like we're lazy parents, we don't want to make it appear like we're not also incredibly hard…

- Lucas Neff

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

- Lucas Neff