“I feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today.”
“If you can have heart as well as the comedy, it takes you a lot further. I think that that's what we were trying to do with 'Gigi.'”
“There was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them.”
“When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.”
“When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.”
“Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.”
“I was being flirted with for 'Modern Family,' which my wife still hasn't let me live down, but it's one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn't be any more perfect. It wouldn't have been right for me, and I wouldn't have been right for it.”
“It's funny, because '1600 Penn' was the first time I really started to read the reviews, because I am an executive producer and I wanted to see what people were enjoying and not enjoying as a means to an end, right?”
“There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.'”
“When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers.”