It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.
I never set out to do a sketch show.
Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.
'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.
The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-raising.
'The Sopranos' was a very East Coast show; 'Heroes' is more organically global.
I have showed things in sparring and camp that I don't show in fights.
I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
Our show is about starting over.
I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?
I had always wanted a steady job in this business, a show that lasted.
My show is more storytelling now than it's ever been. It's what I'm good at.
I started at the 'Wall Street Journal Report' as a production assistant typing chyrons and rolling the teleprompter, and then I became a producer, producing stories in the field, then the show's line producer.
The strong economy means there is fiscal firepower and we need to use that to show people the benefits of the free-market system.
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
I'd like to do a kind of 'Sunday Night At The Palladium'-style variety show on the BBC.
At the Bangalore air show, we got a contract from Boeing for supplying structural components, and we are already supplying jet engine components to Rolls Royce. Both these are titanium-based, not steel components.
The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
That is always what I've had to do in life: to show I am capable of surviving.
