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.

We will be looking at things like the confluence of a scene, and we still have all these creative decisions to make. In general, we're going to just try to make these under a half-hour. We're going to try to take that kind of cable TV comedy model.

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.

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.

Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'

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

There are elements of that, where you'll see a scene again and you'll recognize it, but I wouldn't say it's got one conceit like that, at all. It definitely has those jokes, but it would be wrong to say this is a show where, every time you see it, you see a new angle.