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.

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

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.

Her Smile, The Sole Reason I want to Live !

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.

They say my prints are bad, darling they should see my negatives

Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.

It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'

... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner.