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I don't want to get pretentious, but there's an art to doing sitcoms; you have to make it work in that format.

When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things.

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

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

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

Good comedy doesn't have to be a comedy idea.

We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes, there was no conscious attempt at being either sarcastic or offensive.