I like to write about love plus an obstacle. Not a really big obstacle; not too serious and not too funny. Just somewhere nicely in between - a combination of the two.

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

You want to surround yourself with people who are as dedicated to their discipline as you are to yours and let them do what they do.

Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people crossing the street. You can't even find your actors.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

There are people who are put on this earth to do everything.

I knew I wanted to work in Cinemascope because I find it much more beautiful just in terms of the shape of the screen, the wider image, and it's also less like television, which is important.

I think everybody has a little rule follower and a little rule breaker in them.

It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure.

Sometimes you go against what they say because you believe in it anyway.

Your dreams are worth it. Persevere. Your focus is your power. Harness it.

The first step is the best step in a journey towards a destination.

I'm a writer, but I'm not writing to entertain you, I'm writing to keep alive my knowledge.

I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

One of the things with our show is posing a lot of questions, but getting a lot of answers too.

Without my big brother, I probably literally wouldn't be here.

If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.