I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics and if that was said as Barney Stinson it would mean a little different thing.

Thankfully, the meat of the Tony telecast is the performances from the shows, so the awards show kind of creates itself around the season, and then I fill in based on the vibe of the season in general. I'm happy that there'll be so many legitimately good performances on the show.

The discipline of live theater - doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week - never ceases to amaze me

I love the 'So You Think You Can Dance' show. I love it. I think it's some of the best hours on TV.

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.

That movie [A Series of Unfortunate Events] told four books in two hours, and we have two hours per book. So we have eight hours to tell four books, and if people watch we'll get to tell more of them. There's only thirteen books, so there's only going to be two more seasons, but that allows for a lot of time to be in character and to maintain character.

Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.