By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.

It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day.

Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.

Fans can't ruin shows. Only creators can.

In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.

I am done with the hour-long [true crime] shows: "She was a happy married wife. Everything was perfect. Until the trip to Aruba."

When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.

Until I created my own shows, I had nothing but bad experiences on staffs.

Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

The writing is what's most important to me.

With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.

Like honey is the sleep of the just.

In the morning prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings in the evening it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

I think it's nice to get a break from all of the big Hollywood comic book action-movies and see something that's relatable and funny and interesting.

I feel sorry for the young people today. I think there's too much paparazzi and not enough protection.

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

I could never before say that I loved color or that I understood color. But Oscar de la Renta opened up a side of my brain.

I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

When you recognize the angels, you have come to know God in your own way.