If the doors aren't open, just kick them in and keep walking.

People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.

With mockumentaries, the conceit is that the characters are being interviewed, so you can start a scene and cut to a character looking at the camera and saying, "I'm working on this project," instead of having to figure out ways for people to talk naturally about what they're doing. You see this problem in pilots - people end up explaining things to each other that they'd never explain in real life.

My favorite sitcom of all time is 'Cheers.' That's a perfect example of how, like, people made fun of Cliff, but you never got the sense that they didn't like Cliff.

I hate this phrase, but it's a "can do" attitude [that's important] that, whatever you do in life, you should have.

My favorite TV show of all time is 'The Wire,' which has the feeling of a project-based show. You draw in people from disparate parts of the world, and they have to work together to achieve a goal.