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I watch too much TV.
A sketch is just a mini movie.
I loved Lost, from beginning to end.
I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.
As long as a teaser saves some things, that's good.
There's always something exciting about small change.
I like to believe we're always looking to evolve as writers.
I think what makes a good show is obviously a rabid fan base.
People are vocal, so you hear the pros and cons of your shows.
Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.
With Saturday morning cartoons, you've got to start at 6 A.M., right?
I think fans have an outlet. Through social media, you can hear them.
I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons'. That was actually a good cartoon to me.
To me, if people really want to improvise, get into classes and learn.
When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.
Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.
There are a lot of shows that have been saved because the fans weighed in.
I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.
For young boys, just to know you exist in any capacity is a strong feeling.
We all know that technology has advanced to the point of watching TV online.
In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.
I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.
Old beach houses sometimes don't have TVs, or you don't get cellphone reception.
If someone said, 'Sit down and write a 'Community' episode,' I would be panicked.
The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.
The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.
Honestly, it's terrible, but I don't know if I've ever really read a Stephen King novel.
I think the community that's created within a writers' room is a very interesting topic.
On the personal level, the people that follow you on Twitter are always nice to hear from.
As far as working with actors, I feel very comfortable working in that aspect of directing.
Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, 'Jim Rash' just screams 'Southern boy.'
In a weird way, the drama behind the stage was sort of keeping 'Community' on people's minds.
I think that... I would say that sometimes people get afraid of when you're balancing comedy and drama.
I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.
Writing sketches, youre also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.
Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.
The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.
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.
For there to be a 'Community' movie just seems like an appropriate way for the show to go out. That would be my perfect end.
When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.
Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that moment on.
In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.
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 world.'
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.
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.