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I Think That Once We Get To That Point Where Our Generation Is Running Things, I Truly Believe We'll Look Back At This Time And Question Why We Were Ever So Complacent Withholding Something As Universal As The Freedom Of Equality And Marrying Someone That You Love.

Josh [gad] Is Such An Amazing Improviser And Is So Good When The Material Is Flowing From Him That Sometimes, If A Written Scene Isn't Working Quite Right, I'll Tell Him That We've Got It And That He Can Just Play. He'll Blow Us Away With Some Super Weird Stuff And Some Wild Things That We Might Use Bits And Pieces Of In The Edit, And Then I'll Say, "just For Good Measure, Let's Do One More Of The Scripted Version."

When You're Doing A Pilot, You're Doing It In This Bubble That Almost Works Against The Creative Impulse. You Don't Have Time To Get To Know The Actors First, And You Have Three Writers, As Opposed To A Room Full Of Writers.

Josh Gad And I Have Been Friends Since The Time He Auditioned For Modern Family. I Directed The Pilot For That, And That's How We Met.

[ 1600 Penn] Is An Ensemble Comedy About A Family. It Just Happens To Utilize The Fact That My Character Is Now Being Forced Into This World As A Jumping Off Point. But, In No Way Is It The Crux Of The Series. It's Simply An Introduction To The World.