Jason Katims Quotations

Because of streaming, serialized television has become less of a dirty word when you're pitching shows. I had to fight for that for so long as someone who's always gravitated towards ongoing story lines with characters that evolved and changed and storylines that continued over longer arcs.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.

The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy.

The 'Moonlighting' tension of the couple that obviously never can get together, there's an innate sort of fun and tension in that.

If nobody has really done a show about people in their twenties that has been successful, why?

My first job in television was on 'My So-Called Life.'

I'm not somebody who goes online after every episode airs because that would be, for me, getting too much feedback and too much information.

Something that I learned from 'Friday Night Lights,' sometimes if you have four or five scenes in an episode, it's not having less than having 10. It's what you do with those scenes.

That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important, all the time, every day. Every day of your life, you're changing and making decisions and everything is an emergency to you.