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.

Well, at the time, you have to remember that we were not successful. The Showtime offer, as it was presented to me, was half the money for half the show. I was not interested, at that point, in doing a smaller cast and a more simplified Arrested Development.

For the most part you are dealing with jealousy, you are dealing with love, you're dealing with hatred, you are dealing with revenge and all of these sort of classic things.

Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.

My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something.

If you've got a restaurant, you definitely want the line to be out the door the first night, but you're more interested in people continuing to come to the restaurant. And that's their outlook, a little bit. I think it allows for more creativity, in the process. It allows people to make interesting programming that maybe wouldn't have a place on broadcast networks, if you were just counting people.

I always liked magic. I was always embarrassed by liking magic because I liked the fact that they're just lying.