I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

In the writing, I'm just trying to go deeper, emotionally, and learn more about myself and reveal more and find a way to connect with people in new ways.

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.

The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.

The treasure of life, learning.

Why waste time for a love partner, while you've already wasted a lot of time for your self.

Talk to the tree, make friends with it.

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

I assume I have the lowest blood pressure of any candidate.

When you do a TV show, there's always the fear that it will become tired and you'll know exactly what's going to happen.

Great insight comes from seeing something as odd and finding out why.

Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.

We learn to trust man when he does what we expect him to do; we learn to trust God when He doesn't do what we expect Him to do.