Jim Rash Quotes

I'm consistently blown away by 'Mad Men.' Having spent so much time in the writers' room, I'm cursed in that anytime I watch something, I'm always calculating what the writers are up to.

I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we're in a great era of TV. We all know that, and we hear it all the time, but for filmmakers, it's just a godsend to have your television writing and work to do on television, and the means to do it properly.

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.

There's nothing that could get me interested in Hollywood again. And, increasingly, there's nothing that could get me interested in the American comics industry again.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

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.

Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle.

My heart is in television, just because it's been so good to me.

For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much. So all the great writers would rather work for TV, and they do.

I was on 'The Shield' for a year before 'Crash' came out, and it was like doing an independent film every week.

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

I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers.

I found out that superstars Winkler and William Shatner are real people, and I was so thankful for that.

My first job in Hollywood was as a PA in the writers room of 'Dawson's Creek,' and from that early experience on, I've always had an intense appreciation for the energy, creativity and process of making television.

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'm the TV girl.

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

TV is a big business. In some ways, it's surpassed films, in terms of the way people invest in these shows and invest in these characters, and give up so much of their time to follow these people's stories.

No doubt there are people who are our guests [ in Oh, Hello] who are more famous, but to me, Mel Brooks is the most famous person. So that was really cool.

It's a tough time for screenwriters right now, because fewer movies are getting made. I'm enjoying television so much. It offers opportunities for writers to be in a writers' room and work their way up. It's somewhat easier because there's more of a community. There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.

I don't necessarily look for dark themes; they just seem to appear.

It was a great honor to be called a mo-fo by Sam Jackson.