“It has to pay off in the moment or we simply won’t do it. If I say to myself, well, I’m gonna write this, but I don’t care if anybody reads it until after I’m dead, maybe you would. I’m never gonna write that because I can’t...
“Don’t just sit down and write a book. It’s just not going to work. The best thing to do is take the smallest steps and write a little scene about something. You don’t have to have the whole book. You don’t have to even know what...
“Run your own race, follow your own path. Don’t worry about what other people are doing, and especially now, ‘These kids, they’re doing that.’ And don’t get worried about, ‘Oh, what’s this guy doing?’ Or, ‘What are these people doing?’...
“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...
Jay Moriarty wrote and produced some of the most beloved and revered half-hour comedies in television history including: The Jeffersons, All in the Family, Good Times, Maude, What’s Happening Now!!, Dear John, The Royal Family, Here and Now, Cosby, and Los Beltran....
