“I was the least powerful man in Hollywood. I was about to walk in unprepared to pitch my idea for a comedy channel, and that’s what we did. But I sat down, did the pitch as best as I could. And Michael liked it because he was a big comedy guy. He loved...
“Yeah, like I said, we like to say with scripted, you write the script and then shoot the show. With reality, you shoot the show and then write the script. And that’s kind of how it works. So you just, you have to just hone it down and hone it down and...
“I walk through as the audience is starting to come into the theater. And every night I see kids. These people are so excited to be there and see this show. It means so much to so many people. People are going to a Broadway show. I mean, it’s there....
“Whatever the pursuit is just loving the work itself. Everything else that kind of comes with it can be a drag. There’s ups and downs. And also just try to find actionable things to move forward on. So just starting out and you just try it, then just spend...
“I wasn’t trying to be Buddy Holly or Elvis Presley or anything like that, but I felt that I needed to learn exactly what they were doing as at least a platform to start to have the dexterity to create within those things. And in those days we were all...
