Dan Levy

And the only way you can win

is if you make exactly what you want to make.

Because at the end of the day, if people don't like it, fine.

But the biggest heartbreak is if you compromise your idea and dilute it to the point where it's accessible to people or you've made concessions for whoever's making it.

Like, you can't get that back.

You can't get...

the idea of like when you put your head on, on your pillow at night, the show has to be exactly what you want to make it like what you want, want it to be.

Otherwise you're going to go to bed and think, gosh, if I had only held out, if I had only fought more, maybe it would have worked.

been different you gotta like fight for the things you believe in because that's that's it right have you ever had that experience of course you have it all the time i think that's part of making tv you're you know in in a creative process with people they have the things that they want to be worked in you have the things that you want to be worked in i also have a real like i don't like

And I think we're in this, we're in a culture now where like nobody has faith in the audience, right?

Everyone believes that we are like on four different screens and maybe we are.

I don't want to make TV for someone who's not watching my show.

Right.

I want to make TV that makes me feel good and makes me laugh because there again, there's closure.

Yeah.

You've made the thing you want to make.

Great.

If it works, if it doesn't work, that is outside of the world of you making the show you want to make.

So shut the doors and make sure that the show that you're making right now is exactly what you want to make.

Because opinions aside, that's all you have at the end of the day.