I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.

All of a sudden Mindy [Kaling] was writing on The Office and had sold a TV show. When we'd try to write shows, we'd jokingly call the word documents "Hit Show." We just couldn't crack the code.

I like to move quickly. I don't like the nature of television of just sitting around and overshooting.

I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.

I think a lot of people are very good, but I don't think anybody could do my rhythm. I was thinking, "If you want my rhythm" - and when I was writing, I was writing them for myself - "why am I watching another actor doing what I should be doing?" It was just a really unpleasant experience.

I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.

It's a really weird feeling when you write something and you really know it and then you watch actors come in and do it.