Marta Kauffman
“I think in that way, it really helped, and we were self taught. We never took writing classes. We were thrown head on into DREAM ON, had never done TV, we were self-taught and we were very, very lucky that we were trusted enough to do this, you know, sort of guerrilla-television out in the middle of nowhere. So I think it helped.”
“Don’t write safe for network. You let the story be organic. Don’t force it into anything. If you’re writing a pilot, let the story be organic. If it sells it in network, then you figure it out, but there’s no reason to change the shape of it, unless you’re do- unless you know you want to be on network.”
Carter Bays, creator How I Met Your Mother
“We wanted to do a story about storytelling and about the way we, the way we live our lives and, and, and create our own story as we’re living them, and, and, and with that in mind, it definitely, but it was, like, it was not, it was not the most standard, traditional idea for a sitcom. It had traditional elements, which I think helped sell it, but definitely, the things we were clinging to, you know, weren’t, I mean, not an obvious choice for a show.”