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Television is a very intimate experience. It's in your home, you watch it in your PJs and while you're folding towels.

Television is a very intimate experience. It's in your home, you watch it in your PJs and while you're folding towels.

Marta Kauffman
Home, Pjs, Watches
"‘Friends’ creators Q&A: They just tried to make a show ‘that didn’t suck’". Interview with Bethonie Butler, www.washingtonpost.com. February 21, 2016.

To be completely honest, I didn't want to compete with myself. I wanted to reinvent myself. This seemed like the perfect way to step back in without competing with what I've already done, because I can't win that battle.

Marta Kauffman
Winning, Perfect, Battle

I watch drama. I don't watch a lot of comedy. Watching comedy is like work.

Marta Kauffman
Drama, Watches, Comedy
Source: www.washingtonpost.com

I will say it's great to be a woman because we're very good at multitasking. I could nurse and cook dinner at the same time. It is juggling. It's juggling and you've got to commit to working on the weekends - I do both.

Marta Kauffman
Weekend, Nurse, Multitasking
Source: deadline.com

Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just can't do it.

Marta Kauffman
Art, Sleep, Energy

I was once in a bar with a friend of mine, we were having a drink and a bunch of people walked in and they were talking about how, "It's official, there's going to be a 'Friends' reunion," and I'm sitting there with my friend going, "No, no, there's not."

Marta Kauffman
Talking, People, Bars
"‘Friends’ creators Q&A: They just tried to make a show ‘that didn’t suck’". Interview with Bethonie Butler, www.washingtonpost.com. February 21, 2016.

Dramaturgically, you always hear that you want to see things in the moment, you want to see things happen, you don't want to talk about things, but with "Friends," it was more fun when they talked about it.

Marta Kauffman
Fun, Want, Moments
"‘Friends’ creators Q&A: They just tried to make a show ‘that didn’t suck’". Interview with Bethonie Butler, www.washingtonpost.com. February 21, 2016.

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