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.
sketch
When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.
people
People are vocal, so you hear the pros and cons of your shows.
abandoned created moments novel pilot shares
'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that moment on.
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.
inevitably watching
I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.
I think most co-directors and co-writers just hold hands.
capacity exist
For young boys, just to know you exist in any capacity is a strong feeling.
definitely fascinated
I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.
follow people twitter
On the personal level, the people that follow you on Twitter are always nice to hear from.
backseat few grand movies seems side takes
On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are, it seems that it's a marketing game. Story sometimes takes a backseat to that one grand marketing idea.
beach houses
Old beach houses sometimes don't have TVs, or you don't get cellphone reception.
asking attack car life needed scale telling
One summer, when I was a kid, I was in the car with my stepfather, and he was asking me where I thought I ranked, on a scale of 1 to 10. I said, '6,' and he said, '3.' I think it was his way of telling me that I needed to get out and really attack life.
acting drawn emotional line minute sort sudden toe
My acting has always been in the world of comedy, but in my writing, other than writing sketches, I really am drawn to the balance between comedy and drama. I like things that sort of toe that line of one minute you're in this emotional space and then all of the sudden something happens.