In Real Life, Josh [gad]

I Met Jon Lovett, Who Was Just Coming Off Of Three Years Of Being A Presidential Speech Writer And Had Just Arrived Here To Be A Comedy Writer In Hollywood. I Thought He Was Super Green, In Terms Of This World, But He Knows So Much About The World That We're Attempting To Write About.

Josh [gad] Is Such An Amazing Improviser And Is So Good When The Material Is Flowing From Him That Sometimes, If A Written Scene Isn't Working Quite Right, I'll Tell Him That We've Got It And That He Can Just Play. He'll Blow Us Away With Some Super Weird Stuff And Some Wild Things That We Might Use Bits And Pieces Of In The Edit, And Then I'll Say, "just For Good Measure, Let's Do One More Of The Scripted Version."

Josh Gad And I Have Been Friends Since The Time He Auditioned For Modern Family. I Directed The Pilot For That, And That's How We Met.

I Think “the Book Of Mormon” Has Made That Difference In Its Field. It Changed The Game. It’s Something That 20 Years From Now People Will Still Be Talking About, Hopefully. That’s My Goal As An Artist, As A Creator, As A Work For Hire, Is To Choose Projects That Make People Think, Make People Talk, And Make People Interested In Having A Dialogue.

I'm Unfortunately Very Verbose Too Often.