They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.

One of the things I liked about bringing this show back was that it gives people something to look forward to. In doing the show, I was very aware that some people will watch it all in one night, but there is enough that it will be fun to re-watch. Hopefully, people will be laughing a lot.

At the time, I used to say, "We should market this like Everybody Loves Raymond. It's just a guy dealing with his family." Instead, it was irresistible to show all these funny people. So, I actually think this could be more inviting to a new audience because they can just watch one character, find out what's going on in his life, and then meet another character and find out what's going on in her life, and then see how it intersects the other one.

I think of there being two conditions that creative people go through. I think it's fear and curiosity.

Netflix will know everything. Netflix will know when a person stops watching it. They have all of their algorithms and will know that this person watched five minutes of a show and then stopped. They can tell by the behavior and the time of day that they are going to come back to it, based on their history.

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.