Pilot scripts are particularly difficult to write because you have to introduce all the characters without it feeling like a series of introductions.

You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.

Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.

"30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again.

You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.

We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone.

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.

[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.