Jim Rash Quotes
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With Saturday morning cartoons, you've got to start at 6 A.M., right?
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I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.
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I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the '80s - watching 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' 'Silver Spoons,' Saturday morning cartoons, and 'Murder, She Wrote' while eating an insane amount of Stouffer's French bread pizza. I was sucked into it all.
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I think there's a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that's very challenging.
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Old beach houses sometimes don't have TVs, or you don't get cellphone reception.
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If someone said, 'Sit down and write a 'Community' episode,' I would be panicked.
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I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.
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To me, if people really want to improvise, get into classes and learn.
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My acting has always been in the world of comedy, but in my writing, other than writing sketches, I really am drawn to the balance between comedy and drama. I like things that sort of toe that line of one minute you're in this emotional space and then all of the sudden something happens.
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I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.
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I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.
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Some people like to purge out a draft and just let it go and then go back and fix it, but I'm a writer-rewriter. I can't move on until I feel like it's presentable.
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I can't wait to meet Steven Spielberg or Al Pacino again so I can say, 'I have to tell you how you know me. You know me because I am the worst actor in the world.'
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In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.
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Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.
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I think the community that's created within a writers' room is a very interesting topic.
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I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.
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When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.
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A sketch is just a mini movie.
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Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.