Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

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.

I joked recently that I thought 30 seconds a day for three years would be the best way to enjoy it, and I'm going to stand by that statement.

Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter until there's a story - until someone comes in and holds us hostage.

The form came out of the function because it is for the audience that already knows the show, while hoping to get a new audience, too.

As somebody who wanted to be creative, growing up, I remember always thinking that the thing I had going against me was Orange County because it seemed like all of the comedy was coming out of New York, and it still is, to a certain extent.

What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.