Greg Garcia Quotations

We use (narration) as he's just telling us a story. He could be in a bar somewhere telling the story to somebody. We just happen to be seeing it.

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,

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.

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.

I still felt it was a series, so I woke up every morning at 4:30 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.

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.

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

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.

I've always been a big fan of Jason's and you get a list (of potential leads) at the beginning of all this and next to Jason's name it said, 'Not interested in TV,'

You can't ignore that the stakes are high for NBC for this show. They're excited because they need something to work.

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.

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.

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

That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

They wouldn't call it falling in love if you didn't get hurt sometimes, but you just pick yourself up and move on.

He's stolen countless amounts of change out of people's cars, so if he's at a toll booth, he'll pay for the people behind him.

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.