An Artist’s Job Is To Captivate… If

It Seems To Me That More And More We've Come To Expect Less And Less From Each Other, And I Think That Should Change.

There Are Television Critics, Movie Critics, And Theater Critics Too Who I Like And Who I Follow And I Get Genuinely Bummed When They Don't Like Something That I've Written Because I Usually Agree With Them.

I Got Into Dialogue Because My Parents Began Taking Me To See Plays From When I Was Very Young. Too Young, Often, To Understand The Play I Was Watching: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf When I Was Nine Years Old; That Championship Season When I Was Ten Years Old. But I Loved The Sound Of Dialogue; It Sounded Like Music To Me And I Wanted To Imitate That Sound.

I Have A Lot Of Respect For People Who Are Great At Ad-libbing, And For Writers And Directors Who Are Able To Create A Scene In Which That Works.

Just To Clarify The Division Of Labor On The Show, I Write The Show And Alan [poul] Does Everything Else.