my first memory in life was three years old: my dad took me to see Star Wars and it's not just the first movie I remember, it's my first memory. If y… - Aaron McGruder

I had gotten really good at just shutting it all out because you couldn’t possibly get any work done and track all of this trouble you were getting into and who was saying what.

I think I'm a better writer now than when I started. I certainly know more about producing and working with actors. You take every single bit of it into the next project.

I went in knowing the show couldn't be the strip, aside from the topicality. Those jokes don't "land" at all on television. We didn't re-create the strip on TV -- we wanted to keep the characters the same but make it stand on its own. That's hard -- we certainly didn't get it right away. We struggled with Huey for a long time. Granddad just worked right from the bat. A lot of those Season One episodes were really rough. ... That first season was rough. it almost killed me and everyone around me.