Greg Garcia Quotes (12 Quotes)

It's exciting that the network feels we're strong enough and the show is quality enough to be put in a slot that has housed a lot of great comedy. But as far as affecting our work, I wake up every morning and go to bed every night absolutely terrified that I won't do a good episode of TV, and I'm going to feel that way whether we're on Tuesdays, Thursdays or Sundays at 10 am. It doesn't matter.

We try to find big, funny moments that are going to make people laugh and talk about the next day, but if we can get people emotionally invested in these characters as well, (they're) going to want to come back week after week,

A lot of local bookers don't want to take the time to meet the bands face-to-face, but more or less I like to put a face to a name.

When I say that to people, they repeat the question -- they have trouble believing it. What I wake up every morning terrified of and go to bed at night terrified of is not being able to do a good show. Once I give the show to the network and I'm proud of it, I really don't have that nervousness of 'Are people going to watch are they not going to watch' I can't control that.

It's a fictional town. I named Camden County after my son. It could be an hour outside any city in the United States. I've read on chat rooms that I've been using some town names from western Maryland where I went to college.

Knock on wood, we'll do enough episodes to get through that list. But the other thing that happens on our show is Earl adds things. Just because he's trying to be a better person doesn't make him perfect.

He would wait until the second half of the high school football game so he could go in for free.

If you can walk away from a comedy thinking it was funny yet also feeling good about the people you watched and the journey they went on, then all the better.

I still felt it was a series, so I woke up every morning at 430 before I went to my other job and I wrote. (Eventually) I kind of thought it was over. And then I had lunch with some people at NBC who complimented me on the script and I said, 'Well, let's do it' and to their credit they decided to do it. It was nice that it came back to life.

Upscale audiences don't necessarily need to sit and watch themselves on TV,

We take the perspective that the episode has already happened to him and he's sitting back reflecting on it, ... he understands the stuff he's done is wrong.

We try not to have too much. I've looked at first drafts of scripts where there's too much, and then I've looked at first drafts of scripts where it's too little and it starts to not feel like our show. So there's definitely a balance you try to find.