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A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.

Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

Most of my friends who got shows right away are still just doing shows, and they have no need to create.

I've done a bunch of jobs since 'Deadwood' went off the air, but it's always been a very high bar that those other shows have to live up to.

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

There are plenty of examples of really well-executed shows you could look at and say, 'Well, clearly this show will have an audience; why wouldn't it?' And for whatever reason, it just doesn't catch on. So you never know going in.

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.

Entertainment, really, is a dying industry.