Feels Quote by Ed Helms

It's a very collaborative environment [making The Office]. We always do takes of how it's scripted, but then we also mix it up a…

— Ed Helms

I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there…

— Tatiana Maslany

The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.

— Kiefer Sutherland

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.

— Will Hobbs

Sometimes you read a script, and it's like, 'You'll improv, and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be,' and that's…

— Paul Rudd

Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and…

— Nicholson Baker

It's not very often that you get to come up with ideas and bring your take on the character and then actually have writers,…

— Madchen Amick

They're pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are and aren't…

— James Denton

I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and they're trying to find the tone of the writing and performance. That's always…

— Miranda Otto

The main thing about improvising is listening so if something happens that wasn't expected and you know your character, you know what has to…

— Vince Vaughn

Without sounding defensive, I would say that sometimes TV critics assume that after a few episodes the writers 'finally understand the characters,' and as…

— Jesse Armstrong

I see this with experienced writers, too: They worry so much about the plot that they lose sight of the characters. They lose sight…

— Brian Michael Bendis