Brad Hall
Brad Hall

Julia is one of the most loyal people who ever lived. Her best friend is her best friend from third grade, and her other best friends are her best friends from Northwestern. Once you're a pal, you're a pal for life with Jules. I'm not just flattering her because she's my wife.

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

On every show I've ever done, one of the first network notes is, 'You have to put a time clock on this thing.'

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

If you're on Thursday night at 8:30, because the history of that time slot has been so disastrous, there's a hell of a lot of numbers pressure.

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

In New York you go to the coffee shop, have a bagel, walk down the street, get hassled, run into someone else. People just waltz into your world and it's believable.

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

No one remembers this because it's the whipping boy, but 'The Single Guy' was very well-reviewed and watched, and then the central concept became attacked by the very people who were putting it on. And then the next thing you know you're running in fear, and everyone stops being funny.

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

When I go to see theater, I'm consumed with professional jealousy.

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

TV shows about TV were taboo for a while.

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

It all depends what you look like. If you look like hell and walk down the street, they think you're just another bum. If you're being cool, you TV people don't get recognized. But if you're going to sign autographs and records, then you'll have some trouble.

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

It's nice to be able to sit down and have a discussion about something for more than four minutes, and not look at your watch and go, 'Oh my God, I just spent $40,000 of HBO's money.'

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

Hugh Grant is really the perfect actor for romantic comedies. Anything he does is invariably charming.

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

You have to run, an awful lot, on instinct. Even on 'Veep,' it's not like you get weeks of rehearsal to break out what's going on in the scenes.

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

Those regrets that I do have are, exclusively, not doing plays that I wish I had done.

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

The truth of the matter is that it's not much less work to do a short than it is to do a feature. Particularly when you're running around different countries.

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

I could have been a mediocre tap dancer.

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

If you drugged me with truth serum and said I can only do one thing, I would probably have to say that I would be an actor in the theater. And then I would have you arrested for drugging me.

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

I don't have a lot of lifetime regrets, and very few show business regrets, surely.

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

I like the compressed nature of the story telling.

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

I can do a Green Day joke and people actually get it.

Brad Hall
Brad Hall

Audiences want to see people break rules for love, to challenge the fates for love.