It's Weird To Say, But Every Time

I Met Jon Lovett, Who Was Just Coming Off Of Three Years Of Being A Presidential Speech Writer And Had Just Arrived Here To Be A Comedy Writer In Hollywood. I Thought He Was Super Green, In Terms Of This World, But He Knows So Much About The World That We're Attempting To Write About.

How Do You Top 'mormon?' I Get Sent Scripts All The Time And I Don't Know What I Would Do Next. What Do You Do After That? So I Think If You Do See Me Onstage, You'll See Me In Something Dramatic, Maybe, Or You'll See Me Try My Hand At Something Else. Perhaps Fail, Terribly, But Try.

I Don't Know If I'd Call Myself A Prodigy, But I Was A Big Forensics Competitor In High School, And Then During College I Spent Some Time Working At Speech And Debate Camps As A Coach.

I Think “the Book Of Mormon” Has Made That Difference In Its Field. It Changed The Game. It’s Something That 20 Years From Now People Will Still Be Talking About, Hopefully. That’s My Goal As An Artist, As A Creator, As A Work For Hire, Is To Choose Projects That Make People Think, Make People Talk, And Make People Interested In Having A Dialogue.

When You Get Into The Series, The Progression Is Much Different. You Actually Have Breathing Room And The Chance To Sit Down With Each Actor, Which Was A Part Of Our Process, To Talk To Them About Their Pasts.