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
certainly family growing mind mine people phone pulling
I've certainly been someone who has loved to mine the trials and tribulations of growing up in general, and the people who are in our lives, and I don't mind pulling from them and writing things down on my phone that my family says.
people
People are vocal, so you hear the pros and cons of your shows.
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'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that moment on.
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Some people like to purge out a draft and just let it go and then go back and fix it, but I'm a writer-rewriter. I can't move on until I feel like it's presentable.
good
As long as a teaser saves some things, that's good.
As far as working with actors, I feel very comfortable working in that aspect of directing.
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There are writers' rooms that will write episodes all together, who will break into little groups and write certain scenes. Everyone's process can be a little bit malleable. Everyone tries to get into a groove or find what works for their room.
embraced
In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.
believe
I like to believe we're always looking to evolve as writers.
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I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the '80s - watching 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' 'Silver Spoons,' Saturday morning cartoons, and 'Murder, She Wrote' while eating an insane amount of Stouffer's French bread pizza. I was sucked into it all.
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Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.
discuss family outlet
Can you imagine watching 'All in the Family' and having an outlet like Twitter? Where you could discuss it while it's happening? I think that would be a really interesting thing.
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If there's ever going to be a challenge for an actor, it's that character who's often evolving - which is not often the case in television.
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In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.