Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them.

When you take on a project, you have to be certain that you can make the best version of whatever it is youre given.

My first pilot gig; in fact my first job in television; was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life.

I had never worked in television before Freaks and Geeks, and New Girl is the first time since that Ive worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.

There aren't any GOOD guys. You realize that, don't you? I mean: there aren't EVIL guys, and INNOCENT guys. It's just - it's just... It's just a bunch of guys.

I’m going to punch words in your ear holes.

Our knowledge has limitations even though we have infinite imaginations.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.

There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.

We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it

I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.