Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.

An innovator sees things not as they are, but as they could be.

We all have different needs, thoughts, ideas, visions, languages, colors, and creeds, but we all want peace and happiness.

No one can steal my peace of mind without my consent.

The more I learn about life and people, the more I realise that everyone has a story and everyone’s story is the biggest in their own mind.” - Laylla Jonson

I am who I am, but I am not a bully.

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.

I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.