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It would be a shame for me if I were to become 'Mr. Half-Hour Sitcom.'

I would never turn down a movie, but at the same time, but my ideal job would be a half-hour sitcom.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

Sitcoms, I always figured that would be an easy gig, but man, it is not.

I think the longer a sitcom is on the air, by necessity, the dumber the characters have to get: otherwise, they would be learning and growing, and they won't be funny, so they have to get more and more extremely whatever they are.

In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.

Sitcoms are like summer stock. You put it up in three days, and then you do it in front of an audience, so it's a really great transition from theatre into camera work.

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms.

Doing a sitcom is like doing a play - you rehearse for three or four days, and then you shoot what you rehearsed on Friday night in front of an audience. An hour-long drama is like shooting a movie. You're shooting 13-14 hour days. The endurance itself is different.