Matt Nix Quotes

I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths.

The funny thing for me is, I have never lived in a network world.

I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and rule-following.

I'm a rule follower. But there is also a part of me, clearly, that doesn't follow them.

Everybody should have a television show. Let's all get television shows!

I'm fortunate to have had my own level of success. My joys in life are I've got three little kids, and I got to buy a house that I really like, and everyone should have that.

I am very conscious on a daily basis of how extraordinarily blessed I am to get to do what I do and work with the people that I work with, so I make a practice of being grateful.

I am fortunate in that I am motivated to do what I do by just a really goofy desire to do it. Maybe I have demons that are hidden away someplace, and I'll discover mine someday.

Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.

Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support.

People joke about me that I talk in voiceovers. I have that sort of inflection. But I do talk in voiceovers. I have done it my whole life.

The idea of the writer/producer in television is much younger than people think it is.

I have to say, as a showrunner, being niche-y is kind of a great thing.

One of the things that I have always been interested in is the actual experience of people in their lives as opposed to what we think their experience should be.