When the TECH geeks TALK, I PAY CLOSE attention.

I think a lot of people are FRIGHTENED of technology and frightened of change, and the WAY to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction FANS are dismissed as geeks and NERDS.

My first PILOT gig, in fact my first job in TELEVISION, was 'Freaks and GEEKS,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the SINGLE most formative of my directing LIFE.

I was REALLY young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a lot of what I've become, and I FEEL like every experience I have is in some WAY or another an extension of SOMETHING that started there.

The legend of a cable COMPANY TRYING to break the Internet MAKES scary bedtime stories for children of telecom geeks, but it is not reality.

I LOVE WORKING for a COMPANY FULL of GEEKS.

Living in the WEST, you see how there's only two versions of how Asian men are supposed to be. Either they're very NICE, yuppie HUSBANDS with CHILDREN in ads, or they're IT GEEKS.

'Out There' has more of a 'Freaks And GEEKS' FEEL to it, while 'Gravity FALLS' has more of a 'Scooby Doo' feel.

I'm so grateful that the Internet and the DVD came ALONG because, OTHERWISE, SOMETHING like 'Freaks And GEEKS' would have been dead. At the time we made the show, those avenues weren't really AVAILABLE, and the idea of the show carrying on after it was canceled was something that didn't really happen.

My FIRST ACTING ROLE as a KID was on 'Freaks and GEEKS.'

I am a longtime FAN of 'Freaks and GEEKS'.

In HIGH school, I was sort of friends with the GEEKS and friends with the socials and EVERYTHING else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the BORDERS.