“And then, there are the producers and the writers and the director on the other side of the glass, and what they want.”

You always have good shows and bad shows.

People want a certain amount of each. It’s just widening the market a little bit.

You do a couple of superhero things and then, all of a sudden, they want to get you because there may be some name value.

It’s liberating, on one hand, because you get to show up in sweatpants and with Doritos on your fingers, but on the other hand, it’s limiting because it’s just your voice.

When I go back in to re-record a line. I’m the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing.

It’s a different thing to just be a voice.

On a plane or on a train, or whatever, you see people with their headphones and they’re looking at their iPhone or their Galaxy.

The power lies in who can say no the most. But, real power, though, lies in the opportunity to say yes.

This cross-section of people they just happen to bring in to decide the fate of mankind on television is really scary.

People are ready to do either, and the content has to work on both.

I know that the vitriol and hyperbole that exists online, and the anonymity, can be deadly because it’s cloaked in negativity and it’s brutal sometimes.

More and more people are watching entertainment on their phones.

You have to be malleable to what’s going to work, and you have to stay in the framework of the context.

I wasn’t really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a lot slimmer.

If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you’re gonna watch, it’s scary.

People ultimately get what they deserve on TV.

Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I’m really fond of.

I do feel, like everyone, there’s not enough female directors out there, there’s not enough female producers, and would like to see more people get more opportunity, more opportunity for roles for women.

I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.

Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it.

I actually think film and TV are sort of the same thing now. To me they’re all motion pictures. There’s a camera, a script, other actors and a director. Doing a sitcom is a little different.

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.