I do idiosyncratic dramedies.

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

I'm okay with it now that Obama’s in office. I'm kind of trusting of him. But President Ted Cruz? Where this is going would bother me.

The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

Oh my god... Kerry is boring even when Bush is reading him.

We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

You never judge a day by the weather!