Jim Rash

Jim Rash
James "Jim" Rashis an American actor, comedian, producer, screenwriter, and director. He is known for playing Dean Craig Pelton on the NBC/Yahoo! sitcom Community. In 2012, he received a Golden Globe nomination and won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film The Descendants...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth15 July 1970
CountryUnited States of America
creator tv
The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.
characters dense manageable novels series shrink slightly taking trying
'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.
created
I think the community that's created within a writers' room is a very interesting topic.
balancing people
I think that... I would say that sometimes people get afraid of when you're balancing comedy and drama.
sketch
When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.
notable people work
When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.
advanced technology tv
We all know that technology has advanced to the point of watching TV online.
good hit love
With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.
seems work
When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.
characters grew influenced obviously pulled
Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.
home technology people
Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.
smart people secret
I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.
lost ends
I loved Lost, from beginning to end.
character writing journey
Writing sketches, youre also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.