Nahnatchka Khan

Cable shows do 13 episodes. I get that. I can wrap my head around 13 episodes. You make them all, you post…

— Nahnatchka Khan

Special things happen when you center people who haven't been centered before.

— Nahnatchka Khan

I was Persian-American, but I hated bringing Persian food to school. I just didn't want to stand out in that way. I…

— Nahnatchka Khan

Sometimes you can't really control the language around you. All you can do is follow your voice and your path - dedicate…

— Nahnatchka Khan

Find like-minded people who are on the same page as you, and then lift each other up.

— Nahnatchka Khan

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

Not to say that I saw myself in the Iron Sheik, but our whole family would gather around the TV on Saturday…

— Nahnatchka Khan

When you take stock, there are so many more choices and points of view that are necessary.

— Nahnatchka Khan

You can be layered and more than one thing - you can exist outside of the box.

— Nahnatchka Khan

With 'Always Be My Maybe,' this has to be funny; this has to be entertaining. And then, when we stop for these…

— Nahnatchka Khan

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

I never had a backup plan. I've only been good at one thing. I admire people who are jacks-of-all-trades. That's not me.

— Nahnatchka Khan

If you take a step back, you realize that the TV landscape really has been... There have been some amazing shows in…

— Nahnatchka Khan

Comedy always benefits from different points of view and even tension. It can never be satisfied.

— Nahnatchka Khan

When we were growing up, the only person we saw on TV that vaguely resembled us was the Iron Sheik - the…

— Nahnatchka Khan

Using humor as a wedge into different kinds of stories is my go-to. I think anything I do would have some sort…

— Nahnatchka Khan

The more visibility, the more opportunities for Asian-American actors to play great roles. It goes to the studios opening up roles they…

— Nahnatchka Khan

This is going to sound weird, but when I was a little kid, the Iron Sheik was really big in our house.

— Nahnatchka Khan

Not everybody can see every moment of their life displayed by one set of people. It's just not going to happen.

— Nahnatchka Khan

If I waited to write only for a Persian lesbian, I'd still be waiting. But I can write for straight white men…

— Nahnatchka Khan

I've always been passionate about movies, TV, and writing, and I've been working so hard at it for so long. There were…

— Nahnatchka Khan

Stuff starts to feel stale comedically when you're just rehashing things, so putting together a writers' room where the majority is made…

— Nahnatchka Khan

'Seinfeld' was an amazing show. It's iconic and defined a whole generation of comedy writers - but by their own admission, that…

— Nahnatchka Khan

The idea of dealing with success is always interesting to us: You spend so long struggling to make good, and then what…

— Nahnatchka Khan

I went to USC and got my first break writing for a kids' show called 'Pepper Ann.'

— Nahnatchka Khan