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.