Jim Rash Quotes

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.

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

When you're writing a feature film, the moment you begin Page 1, you are in a sweat that you're running out of pages.

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

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.

Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it.

No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.

Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.

If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.

In television writing, even if you're running the writers room, it's a writers room.

I'm crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I wouldn't know how to write an episode of it.

In TV, it's so much more about the writers because they're the ones creating the universe. The writers are the ones who know what's up.

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

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

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.

Tweeting is a great way to practice writing jokes, but there is so much more to comedy writing than just jokes. Jokes are a necessity, but you also have to learn how to write characters, to break a story, to keep coherence between episodes. I've learned more by being a TV writer than I ever could've on my own.

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