"The audience deserves your best work. Always."
"This place runs on coffee, competence, and trust."
"I'm not interested in good. I'm interested in great."
"The pressure is the price you pay for doing meaningful work."
"You can't build anything lasting on compromise."
"What separates good shows from great shows is vulnerability."
"I need people around me who will tell me the truth."
"The moment you stop challenging yourself is the moment you start declining."
"Television is immediate. You have to make decisions and live with them."
"I love this job and it's destroying me. That's the deal."
"You can't make art by committee. At some point, someone has to lead."
"The network doesn't get to define what success is here."
"Every week we start from zero. Every week we have to earn it."
"I became a writer because I had something to say."
"The best teams are made of people who challenge each other."
"You have to be willing to fail spectacularly to succeed greatly."
"The show is a living thing. You have to feed it."
"I'm not running from anything. I'm running toward something."
"Comedy breaks down barriers between people."
"The hardest part isn't the idea. It's the execution."Work
"I have respect for anyone who tries to make something good."
"The network thinks it owns the show. It doesn't."
"You grow up or you get out of the way."
"The show will tell you what it needs to be if you listen."
"I'm tired and I'm stressed and I wouldn't trade it for anything."
"The best part of this job is the people you get to work with."Gratitude
"You can't control the ratings. You can only control the work."
"This job requires you to be twice as smart and half as crazy."
"I didn't get into television to compromise my vision."
"The show lives or dies based on the work we do in this room."