Aug 20, 2015
The best thing about that place is its essentially Darwinian nature. On the first day it’s like, “Go pitch a sketch to Samuel L. Jackson. One of them got chosen? Good. Now produce it.” You literally don’t know how to. Your choices are panic and run away, or start asking questions, learn and be self-sufficient. By the time you leave you have a basic level of acumen in every skill necessary to produce television — editing, directing, shooting, rewriting — it gives you a crash course in every aspect of it.
Mike Schur on SNL