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

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.

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

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

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.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down."

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

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

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.

The people that always impress me are the ones that are curious about what they're going to do next.

Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.

If you've never watched people watch television, I don't recommend it. It's not an exciting thing to do.

The form came out of the function because it is for the audience that already knows the show, while hoping to get a new audience, too.

What's realistic to me is that families love each other and stand by each other. What's unrealistic is that they would ever say that.

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.

Television is so much about continuing to work with people.

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.

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

I think of there being two conditions that creative people go through. I think it's fear and curiosity.

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

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

We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it.

Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work.

I hope to take advantage of the Netflix organism and see if there are ways to get in new material and see if there are ways to do deleted scenes.

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