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Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they need you. If they didn't have to treat you with respect, they would be happy to dismiss you.

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can't hear me through the television set.

The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.