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" Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system. "

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" There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere. "

" If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television. "

" I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves. "

" Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else. "

" I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do. "

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" The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it. "

" People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it. "

" Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy. "

" I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing. "

" When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere. "

" Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up. "

" I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass. "

" When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy. "

" Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium. "

" I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories. "

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" Maybe I am just a jerk. "