With Saturday morning cartoons, you’ve got to start at 6 A.M., right?

I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.

On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are, it seems that it’s a marketing game. Story sometimes takes a backseat to that one grand...

I think what’s cool about a body-switching movie is, ‘The grass is always greener:’ the idea that someone else has a better life than I do.

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.

Working out has always been a stress reliever for me. I don’t know if it’s so much vanity as it more just keeps my mind from going crazy.

I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.

I watch too much TV.

One summer, when I was a kid, I was in the car with my stepfather, and he was asking me where I thought I ranked, on a scale of 1 to 10. I said, ‘6,’...

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.

As far as working with actors, I feel very comfortable working in that aspect of directing.

You’d just die if you put your head to the grindstone.

Writing sketches, you’re also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

If someone said, ‘Sit down and write a ‘Community’ episode,’ I would be panicked.

Some people like to purge out a draft and just let it go and then go back and fix it, but I’m a writer-rewriter. I can’t move on until I feel like it’s presentable.

Old beach houses sometimes don’t have TVs, or you don’t get cellphone reception.

The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail – that’s something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

As long as a teaser saves some things, that’s good.

Can you imagine watching ‘All in the Family’ and having an outlet like Twitter? Where you could discuss it while it’s happening? I think that would be a really interesting thing.

I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the ’80s – watching ‘Diff’rent Strokes,’ ‘Facts of Life,’ ‘Silver Spoons,’ Saturday morning cartoons, and ‘Murder, She Wrote’...

If there’s ever going to be a challenge for an actor, it’s that character who’s often evolving – which is not often the case in television.

Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes...

With writing, I love doing it, but there’s that love-hate relationship: You’re not having a good run, you’ve hit a wall; it’s frustrating.

There are a lot of shows that have been saved because the fans weighed in.

Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, ‘Jim Rash’ just screams ‘Southern boy.’

‘Game of Thrones’ is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.

I think there’s a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other...

Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.

There are writers’ rooms that will write episodes all together, who will break into little groups and write certain scenes. Everyone’s process can be a little bit malleable. Everyone tries to get into a groove...

I’ve certainly been someone who has loved to mine the trials and tribulations of growing up in general, and the people who are in our lives, and I don’t mind pulling from them and writing...

There’s always something exciting about small change.

I like to believe we’re always looking to evolve as writers.

I can’t wait to meet Steven Spielberg or Al Pacino again so I can say, ‘I have to tell you how you know me. You know me because I am the worst actor in the...

I loved ‘Lost,’ from beginning to end.

In a weird way, the drama behind the stage was sort of keeping ‘Community’ on people’s minds.

When you’re talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you’re talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.

I feel like my experience on ‘Community’ was that I saw just how important that first year is for a series. That is where you work all the pieces out, and that means honing the...

To me, if people really want to improvise, get into classes and learn.

I loved ‘Dungeons & Dragons’. That was actually a good cartoon to me.

I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn’t been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.

I think the community that’s created within a writers’ room is a very interesting topic.

Look at people that influenced me – but I didn’t know if I had that sort of ‘I’m going to take you under my wing’ person.

I think the networks, in general, have to evaluate what’s happening around them. I’m sure they’re scared about a lot of things: Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, and all these places that allow people to watch shows...

We all know that technology has advanced to the point of watching TV online.

I think fans have an outlet. Through social media, you can hear them.

I will say you could always look at ‘Looney Tunes’ and learn about writing. I think you can learn a lot about the beats of comedy. I think you can find out about awkward pauses,...

I think what makes a good show is obviously a rabid fan base.

My family was perfect.