“Norman Lear was talking about everything in the '70s... race, sexism, ...” — Nahnatchka Khan Quote

Norman Lear was talking about everything in the '70s... race, sexism, all of it. The network comedy really stayed away from that in the 1980s and 1990s.

When you're writing a pilot, unless you already have an actor attached to the project, you're writing it with all the voices sort of in your head. Once you actually cast it, the actors become the voices of the characters, and you start to write for them and their strengths.

Special things happen when you center people who haven't been centered before.

I think a lot of quote-unquote 'comedic actors' really go for the laugh and are overly straining and sort of trying.

If someone asks me to go to speak at, say, Princeton, I might or might not go. But if someone asks me from Norman, Oklahoma, I certainly will go.

My father grew up in a Norman Rockwell postcard. His mother was a stay-at-home mom, his father was a rural mailman, they had six kids.

Norman Parke needs to stay off of Twitter before he gets himself in a fight he can't win.

How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.

I went to Norman High then I walked across the street after that and went to college. That's my home town, that's where I'm from. Physically I'm a Texan, but I'm an Oklahoman.