Jim Rash Quotes

I think the community that's created within a writers' room is a very interesting topic.

All good communal storytelling comes from the sagas and arguments within the writers room.

I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.

My friends, we all improvise together usually. So we write what I think is a good script but always leave a lot of room to find stuff on the day; and we always do find something. That's the advantage to having actors who are, in their own right, writers.

When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.

I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.

I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.

On 'The Deuce,' the writers' room gets like group therapy.

You get the initial script, and then things sort of change here and there, but the whole thing is this sort of mushy collaboration, which I love.

We don't ever write stuff individually and say, 'OK, this is gonna be the song.' We bring in ideas in their rawest form and bounce them around to find the thing that is bigger than any individual's idea.

I don't think that I would go into the writers' room because they work really hard and I feel like I'm already working really hard to shoot my part of the show. Also, I haven't written in a writers' room before, it's kinda intimidating to walk in there.

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.

I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.

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.

Lots of shows are written completely in the writer's room. And I wouldn't say 'The Walking Dead' is that way. There are three levels to it. There's us in the room. The writers going off by themselves. And me working with the writers on a finished script.

Pretty much, I am always open to input from everyone; although I don't require it, the feedback is conducive to getting the play together.

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

We would write scripts, like for 'Shutterbugs.' Then when we shot it, everyone just came up with new stuff. We've definitely learned how to do it better as we've gotten along. So basically, that's how it went. We just go in with ideas and try to figure out funny stuff while we're there.

But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen.

I do a lot of improvising when I'm writing, and I work very hard on the scripts... they are written very much in an actor-friendly way.

One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.