For immigrant families, television is what connects you to American culture, but it's also what makes you feel like an outsider. — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
'Fresh Off the Boat' will be syndicated. This show and these characters will live forever in the pantheon of classic family sitcoms. — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
'Modern Family' is unique in that it's telling the story of three different families, which is a huge amount of characters to… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
The family sitcom has been around forever, since the advent of television. I don't need to reinvent it. But if you take… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
Not to say that I saw myself in the Iron Sheik, but our whole family would gather around the TV on Saturday… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
It's something that's almost taken for granted in sitcoms about white families. Like, 'Oh, we're going on a summer vacation!' As if… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
I'm not Chinese, but both of my parents were born in Iran; my brother and I were the first ones born here.… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
My family never took vacations growing up. It just wasn't a thing. — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
In terms of leadership, you've got to allow for people to be amazing and to contribute in a way that's meaningful. You can't hold… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
The first time I ever wrote anything, it was an editorial column for my high school newspaper. — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
I've read many great samples, both of existing shows I liked and original pilots, and definitely hired the writers - or, at least, tried… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
Some people don't have a sense of humor about certain things, and other people do. — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
Networks love data. They love to be able to look at numbers and try to predict what they think will work. — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
Randall Park and Ali Wong, they are so many things; they're not just one thing, they're bigger than just their identity. — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
Working in network sitcom arenas, whenever you decide to depart from the norm and tell a story that's not typical, I think you're always… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
Norman Lear was talking about everything in the '70s... race, sexism, all of it. The network comedy really stayed away from that in the… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
I think a lot of quote-unquote 'comedic actors' really go for the laugh and are overly straining and sort of trying. — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
You don't have to be just one thing. I think that applies to women in front of and behind the camera. — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
For immigrant families, television is what connects you to American culture, but it's also what makes you feel like an outsider. — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
