I have to be really careful, because I have nothing but love for this entity known as "the customer" in entertainment. I would never, ever, ever put myself above them and say, "They don't get it, but it's funny, believe me." If they're not laughing, I'm doing my job wrong.

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

I was playing the game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was nothing else that I thought about, including other people.

I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

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.

The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for worse, you're going to see evidence that accepting reality is not a human's tendency, and not what we're good at, and not, in my speculation, what God or Natural Selection hired us to do. We've been hired, by this universe, to dream, to aspire, to make things that weren't real real - and because that involves a lot of failure, we're damn good at doing that, too.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.