“So I wrote the spec script, and I got it to Larry David because I had known Larry David from New York stand up days and figuring he might buy the idea. Instead, he called me up and said, “Do you want a job?” And I said, “Yeah.” And he...
“There’s the kind of note that you get from somebody that’s paying you, and there’s the kind of notes that you’re getting somebody that’s not paying you. So the ones that are not paying you, you listen to. If you get the note from...
“Harry Dean Stanton… he lived on Mulholland Drive. His neighbors were Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando. He and Marlon Brando became very close friends. Everybody knew about Harry Dean’s philosophy of, there is no individual… we’re all...
“In season one, Cedric the Entertainer opens the front door. The two neighbors are there with a bunch of board games….And our showrunner at that time said, oh, we need to add Cedric walking up to the window and looking through the window and saying,...
“The trick is to always know what your next shot is. You don’t have to know what your shot is two shots from now, but you have to know what your next shot is so that when you do say cut, check the gate print, moving on, people know that you have the...
