I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.

These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.

The whole world is out of time!

Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

Hope is a great falsifier of truth.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

As I got older, I would study privately with some coaches. Then I found Lee Strasberg, which I loved.

When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy.

Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.

I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.

As a kid, I felt really weird.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.