Doing Quote by Cheryl Hines

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.

— Pippa Evans

“Writing a screen play: One page of an average screen play equals about one minute of screen time. Therefore, the script for a typical…

— John Griesemer

I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.

— Sela Ward

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

— Alexei Sayle

Doing a sitcom is like doing a play - you rehearse for three or four days, and then you shoot what you rehearsed on…

— James Belushi

When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.

— Jonny Lee Miller

I think the sitcom is the format for television. It's the essential form, and it represents more of the canon of TV, which is…

— Martine Syms

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

— Hannibal Buress

With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

— James Purefoy

A lot of the time, a comedy script is just dialogue, and that's the main thing you have to worry about.

— Paul Rust

Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same to me…

— Michael Eklund