Jessica Williams Quotes

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

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it.

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.

I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, 'You know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.'

I'm a long-time fan of Rob Long, and his books are hugely re-readable, detailing the ins and outs of being a Hollywood comedy writer with a past success but with everything to prove.

When I was in advertising, I did a great deal of work on television commercials. A co-worker and I wrote a screenplay, which led to a few more screenplays, and some were optioned by production companies. I was advised to move to California but didn't want to make the move. I decided to use another form of storytelling, so I wrote a novel.

I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It's ten people, and you're together every day laughing your heads off.

I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was David Milch of 'Deadwood' who helped me to see it that way. We later collaborated on the short-lived 'John from Cincinnati,' but I'm very proud of the work we did together.

Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.

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 write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

By June 1990, I'd racked up 'written by' credits on both 'Newhart' and 'The Simpsons.'

I went to USC and got my first break writing for a kids' show called 'Pepper Ann.'

There are a lot of good writers in TV!

I love television, and my love for it has made me curious about writing it. It feels like television's moving toward something more novelistic, and that's what I started wanting to do. But I can't say that I'm dying to get notes from a studio. The artistic control that you get as a playwright is worth its weight in gold.

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.

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.

I was a screenwriting major in college, and really wanted to do that after I graduated, but there are no job listings for that, as we all know. I had many classmates that made it in the business, but stand-up comedy was my way in, and my first film 'Sleepwalk with Me' was based on those autobiographical experiences.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

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

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

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.