Jim Rash Quotes
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Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.
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Old beach houses sometimes don't have TVs, or you don't get cellphone reception.
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I've certainly been someone who has loved to mine the trials and tribulations of growing up in general, and the people who are in our lives, and I don't mind pulling from them and writing things down on my phone that my family says.
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I think that... I would say that sometimes people get afraid of when you're balancing comedy and drama.
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If someone said, 'Sit down and write a 'Community' episode,' I would be panicked.
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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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To me, if people really want to improvise, get into classes and learn.
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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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I think fans have an outlet. Through social media, you can hear them.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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.