I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.

My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.