Megan Amram Quotes

I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

Your average sitcom writer is a very intellectual person.

All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.

I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

Sitcoms, I always figured that would be an easy gig, but man, it is not.

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny. And I discovered a lot of great writers that went on to do a lot of great shows like 'Seinfeld,' 'Friends,' you know, 'Three and a Half Men.'

I could never sit down and write jokes.

If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.

Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

I would never turn down a movie, but at the same time, but my ideal job would be a half-hour sitcom.

A lot of the traditional sitcom stuff I did - I think I could have gone that route when I was younger as a staff writer, and I just didn't want to.

I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

After 'Nikki' and 'Steve Harvey,' I had written on a show called 'The Oblongs,' which was pretty well respected and had a lot of 'Simpsons' writers on it. So I was a TV writer with an interesting voice at that moment.

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

I got written out of 'G.I. Joe' and was like, 'Welp, I'm going to go back to what I do: writing and producing comedy.'

I loved doing 'Frisky Business.' I didn't come up with it. I think John Oliver and the writers did.

I wrote for 'The Sopranos' and worked on big, blustery characters for quite a while.

I'm very driven by writing. Coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' because it's such a writing job, and we all write our parts on the show and create characters, I'm so respectful of good writing.

The kind of scripts I have read for web shows have been outstanding.

Before I went to a meeting at the 'Harvard Lampoon,' I had no idea that there was even a comedy magazine at Harvard, let alone that you could write comedy potentially for a living.

I didn't get paid to write professionally until my first episode of 'Kyle XY,' which was the fourth episode of the first season.

I wrote on the fourth season of 'Arrested Development.'

The hardest thing to write is sitcom.