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It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be an impossible schedule. That's the funny thing with TV that not a lot of people realize.

It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.

The real challenge in doing a TV show is in what I would call the maintenance energy. You take that creative energy and you use it every week, of course. But you then need to maintain the quality of the stories, and it's harder to do.

It's always difficult when you're on a show that goes for more than a year or a couple of years.

When you're making a reality show, you can't even plan a week ahead now.

You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.

My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and I actually think it's a much harder schedule because you've got to do it eight times a week and you've got to do it good eight times a week and with different kinds of audiences who are cold or drunk or tired, whatever it is.

There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.

And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable.