Zitat des Tages von Jim Rash:
The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.
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.
Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.
I think fans have an outlet. Through social media, you can hear them.
I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.
Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.
Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, 'Jim Rash' just screams 'Southern boy.'
To me, if people really want to improvise, get into classes and learn.
If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail message on how to deal with writer's block or how to deal with any problem that can come up - whether you're writing about yourself or a group of people, I find that very interesting.
I think that... I would say that sometimes people get afraid of when you're balancing comedy and drama.
Nobody is completely perfect.
If someone said, 'Sit down and write a 'Community' episode,' I would be panicked.
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 without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that's very challenging.
You'd just die if you put your head to the grindstone.
When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.
I watch too much TV.
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.
On the personal level, the people that follow you on Twitter are always nice to hear from.
When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.
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' while eating an insane amount of Stouffer's French bread pizza. I was sucked into it all.
Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.
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 or find what works for their room.
As long as a teaser saves some things, that's good.
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.
I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons'. That was actually a good cartoon to me.
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 passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.
We all know that technology has advanced to the point of watching TV online.
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 characters' voices, setting that tone, finding your angle.
As far as working with actors, I feel very comfortable working in that aspect of directing.
In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.
I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.
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 marketing idea.
Old beach houses sometimes don't have TVs, or you don't get cellphone reception.
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.
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.