I guess working in the legitimate industry, the best thing you can take away from it is acceptance of the incompetence that often surrounds you. No, that sounds horrible. The most important thing, I guess, is the fact that working in the legitimate industry, what I see all too often is people trying to interpret the wishes of the audience, which with today's technology, is all too easy to measure empirically.

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.

I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

Wake up in the morning and say, 'I refuse to be a hack,' and see what happens by the end of the day.

Audiences, as they get smaller, can intensify their relationship with the product, and so can the creative relationship with the people that you are serving. The good news is that, the more shows there are, the less the conglomerates have to gain by breaking the will of each individual creative.