John Lloyd Quotes

I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen program, 'Anger Management.'

I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years.

I learned how to write TV by writing 'Grey's Anatomy.'

If you want to write for films or TV, you must go to Hollywood.

There are a lot of good writers in TV!

I'm not a Larry David. I don't have a 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and a 'Seinfeld' in me.

I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The Daily Show', I was a semester away from officially starting my major, so I never started that in particular.

My take on 'Lucifer' was pretty much laid down by Tom Kapinos when he wrote the original pilot script for it. I remember reading it for the first time, and I was about four or five pages in, thinking this is so funny, and I know how I would want to do this if I was going to do it.

I grew up watching television as a kid. It was always something I wanted to pursue.

We feel like we're kind of movie guys working in TV. So we're looking forward to that day when we get to work in that medium.

I'll never be a TV writer.

My focus is films, and 'Angela's Eyes' is one of those TV projects that has some good TV concepts behind it and good writing.

The cool thing about 'Transparent' is that the show is funny but not like a sitcom is funny. It all comes down to the writing... The writers on that show are so good that you don't have to worry about anything. There are so many things that can go wrong making a TV show or a movie, but if the writing's good, that's, like, 95 percent of it.

When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.

I'm pursuing film and TV, and it's exciting because I feel I can write in almost any genre now.

In terms of writing and developing, TV is very open because TV needs stories. They need new pitches, and they need new ideas. They don't always take the risk for new ideas, but they are certainly open to it. They can't have enough people come in and pitch to them. It doesn't matter how they look or what gender they are.

I wrote for 'King of the Hill' for three seasons.

When I started as a filmmaker, I never, ever imagined in a million years that I would be doing television because, at that time, TV was a very different medium.

I'm a big believer in comedy writers. I've always defended the honor of all comedy writers. It's extremely difficult, but I've always felt that comedy writers far more easily can move toward drama than vice versa.

I've requested Anand Raghav to write a full length comedy for me.

I was a writer on '30 Rock' for six years.

The best comedies are the ones where the person who's in charge is the one with the vision who's said, 'I'm staying with this till the very end.'

I finally achieved my dream by being a TV showrunner.

When I first found out what a show runner was, I thought it was the strangest job I had heard of in my life.

When you talk about a character on a situation comedy, it's not just the actor. It's the writers, too.