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I have a fun clause in my contract. If I'm not having fun, I can leave.

~James Burrows

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I know what's funny, and I probably know the best way to deliver the joke. Whether it's walking out of a room, facing that way, facing this way. I just have a sense of that.

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My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.

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I didn't have the drive; I never wanted to be in show business. I went into my father's business because of osmosis.

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Script comes first, then the actors, then you gotta be lucky enough to get the right time slot. Then people have to watch.

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The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

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On 'Taxi,' I had the great fortune of directing many wonderful episodes, none more classic than Reverend Jim's driving test. It was maybe the funniest show I did.

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I'll tell you what I love about directing: the surprise. You never know what's going to happen with your piece until an audience weighs in.

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I remember on the pilot of 'Will and Grace' some executives from NBC saying to me, 'There are too many gay jokes.' I said, 'If not on this show, then what show?'

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Most of the pilots I choose do not have high-concept ideas, so for me it's not the idea as much as the execution of the idea, and if the idea, like you take a bar in Boston, that's not a high-concept idea. But if it's executed well, it makes a great show.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: December 30th, 1940

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