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" I think 'The X-Files' was a very important moment in TV history. "

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" I like working with Bob Odenkirk. "

" Catherine O'Hara's one of the most amazing, wonderful actresses, but she's an amazing improviser. She really is. "

" I made some friends who are still friends, and this is the city of my birth. I love living here when there's a reason to, other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here, but it's an amazing city and I love it. "

" That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more. "

" David Lander and I met in September of 1965. We were both students at Carnegie Tech, as it was then known. Before the Mellon money came in. "

" I'm not really a gourmet. I like to try new things. "

" Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear! "

" I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help. "

" 'Clue' was a big flop when it came out, but it became a... It's a movie that almost everyone references with me, now, when I run into people. "

" It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals. "

" After I left 'Laverne & Shirley,' I got a ton of offers to play the goofy guy next door, and there were a couple of series that I was offered that turned out to be successful series, but it was too close to what I'd done on my series, and I was really glad I didn't take it. "

" I'm not a big oyster eater. But I know people who will sit at a raw bar and eat oyster for two hours. "

" People seem to think if you're successful, then you have some secret. The fact is, you've just managed to work your life a certain way. "

" I pray to the shrine of 'Mr. Show.' It saved sketch comedy. "

" To direct a sequel to somebody else's work is not interesting to me. "

" The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true. "

" Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities. "

" A character has to believe in himself, so I have to find a way to believe in them. Or at least sympathize to a degree. "

" I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style. "

" My wife makes an amazing chili. "

" On film, when you're driving home from the set, you realize what you should have done, but it's too late. When you're taking the subway home from your play, you realize what you did wrong, and you go back the next night and you do it better, or you screw it up again in a different way. It's a different thing altogether. "

" I don't eat steak often, maybe once a month. But when I do, it really hits the spot. When you're done with your steak and your mashed potatoes and your green beans, you really know you've had dinner. "

" I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody. "

" I can have a real long day; I can have a 14-hour day of intense work and then get home, and it's just me and TCM on into the night. "

" Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that. "

" I'm not a lawyer, thank God. Not that there's anything wrong with it. I've never had the brain power for it. I was not the kind of guy who could learn case law. "

" There's more than one way to do TV just like there's more than one way to do widescreen movies. "

" Some of the most interesting characters in literature and in movies and TV have been ones that you can't quite figure out all the way. "

" I watch my wife knitting, and it's like watching close-up magic to me. "

" I think a villain who starts his morning looking in the mirror, wringing his hands, and going, 'How can I be evil today?' is not an interesting villain. An interesting villain is a person who you understand on some level, I think. "