As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

Every journey starts with fear.

Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you.

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to

Look around! People have faces with no smiles, as if they are carrying heavy baggage. Stop them! Give them a SMILE and see them Light up.

(One character on another:)"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?

Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.

It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.

I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.

The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.

When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.