Nick Kroll Quotes

In the U.S., there are around 300 shows in different networks, so there's a lot of work here.

I developed the pilot for 'Entertainment Tonight' with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who became my business partner in 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,' 'Runaway' and several other shows and specials.

The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.

I've had nine failed pilots. I've been doing TV for a long time.

I would like to see more of the making of just regular television shows. Like the casting process. I think it's so fascinating to watch the actors come in and see how they discuss everybody afterwards. It's a crazy world that has no rhyme or reason.

In the era of networks only, I cannot tell you the number of shows that we don't know about that did not survive. They got canceled. But there are a few that survived by accident, because they didn't have anything else to do, and they stayed with it.

When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art.

To me, television is one of the most exciting things going on right now, as far as content goes. Some of these shows that are on television are better than any of the movies out there.

Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.

I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it, and it's done quickly.

I love Chuck Lorre. I did a little guest spot on 'Roseanne' when I was fourteen. It was a whirlwind experience in a week and I think with Chuck, I had auditioned for him for a couple of other shows of his over the years.

With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be an impossible schedule. That's the funny thing with TV that not a lot of people realize.

I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work.

There's a lot of progress happening in TV. You have amazing shows like 'How to Get Away With Murder.' You have people like Shonda Rhimes, Lee Daniels with 'Empire,' and Jason Katims with 'Friday Night Lights' and 'Parenthood.' You have people behind the scenes writing complex women.

I think NBC got a little reluctant to get behind single-camera shows after 'Scrubs' didn't do what they thought it was going to do following 'Friends.'

Jeff Wachtel, who was the main reason our show came back, and also got picked up to begin with, is from the New York theater.

I've sold shows based on my standup twice to CBS, but they've never gone past the script stage. TV is very competitive.

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

TV is a hard thing to do. It's a hard thing to get a show.

You know how trends go with television. Next year, the networks might not be open to taking risks.

Putting any show on television is a challenge. I've been very lucky to work with incredible showrunners on 'Smallville' and 'Lost' and 'Heroes.' I hope to bring a lot of those lessons to Marvel live television.

I worked on 'Game Of Thrones' for six years, so I'm very well equipped to handle hype surrounding television shows.