Quotes from Jim Rash

Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.

People are vocal, so you hear the pros and cons of your shows.

I think that... I would say that sometimes people get afraid of when you're balancing comedy and drama.

I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the '80s - watching 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' 'Silver Spoons,' Saturday morning cartoons, and 'Murder, She Wrote' while eating an insane amount of Stouffer's French bread pizza. I was sucked into it all.

I think there's a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that's very challenging.

'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that moment on.

With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.

I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons'. That was actually a good cartoon to me.

With Saturday morning cartoons, you've got to start at 6 A.M., right?

Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.

We all know that technology has advanced to the point of watching TV online.

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

Writing sketches, youre also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

There are a lot of shows that have been saved because the fans weighed in.

Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.

As far as working with actors, I feel very comfortable working in that aspect of directing.

The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

One summer, when I was a kid, I was in the car with my stepfather, and he was asking me where I thought I ranked, on a scale of 1 to 10. I said, '6,' and he said, '3.' I think it was his way of telling me that I needed to get out and really attack life.

Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.

Some people like to purge out a draft and just let it go and then go back and fix it, but I'm a writer-rewriter. I can't move on until I feel like it's presentable.

Look at people that influenced me - but I didn't know if I had that sort of 'I'm going to take you under my wing' person.

I think what makes a good show is obviously a rabid fan base.

On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are, it seems that it's a marketing game. Story sometimes takes a backseat to that one grand marketing idea.