For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.

I think in television there's more of an awareness about a need for more diversity, but there still needs to be great practical strides taken to improve diversity in front of and behind the camera.

I would be Jesse Martin ..., but not to be his character, just so I could be Jesse Martin and sing like Jesse Martin for a day.

Fan feedback going from a box of letters once every few months to literally tweeting while the show is airing. We are able to get a much quicker response to the choices we're making as storytellers.

Their sudden intimacy was like the explosive combustion that engulfs and consumes a moth that has fluttered too close to a candle flame

In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

I made a mistake. I should've had two accounts, one for personal and one for office. And I didn't, and I take responsibility for that.

I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.

I find American behaviour...odd

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it.

Every great advancement was once nothing more than a dream in the mind of a visionary.