Words matter. These are the best Rob Thomas Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Ryan Hansen is my favorite person on the planet. He is my discovery. I’m so proud of him.
I like the rhythm of comedy in dramas, if that makes sense. In other words, I don’t want to write setup, punch, setup, punch, where the joke dictates the scene; I want to find comedy in which the drama is actually driving the moment in the scene.
Having written both comedy and drama, comedy’s harder because the fear of failure’s so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn’t make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn’t. Failed drama, it’s all, ‘That’s not that compelling,’ but failed comedy just lays there.
The brilliance of Adam Scott is that he is so damn funny in a straight man role.
Before Twitter or Facebook, all the fandom that I knew about was anecdotal.
My hope is that I hit it big with something, and then I’ll have enough of a cushion to carve out time to write a book. That would be my passion project.
Trying to convince Warner Bros. to make a $30 million ‘Veronica Mars’ movie just wasn’t going to happen, for understandable reasons.
Teenage years are hard. And, having taught high school for a number of years, I think they’re particularly hard on teenage girls. The most self-conscious human beings on the planet are teenage girls.
On ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ those kids were supposed to be outsider kids – you know, wrong-side-of-the-track kids, weirdo kids. And I just felt like there’s no universe out there where Katie Holmes isn’t the prom queen, hottest girl in school.
I love ‘Arrested Development.’
I want to be happy going to work. I want to do a show I’m proud of.
‘Freaks and Geeks’ was my favorite show when it was on, by a wide measure. And that’s the show I wanted to do. I noodled with the idea of doing a show about teenagers that told small stories, small moments of personal growth.
Having gotten TV shows on the air, that’s so much less work that trying to get the ‘Veronica Mars’ movie made.
I started my career as a novelist. ‘Veronica Mars’ was first imagined as a novel.
Reading ‘Youth in Revolt’ might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn’t do that very well.
