I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

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!

I love Naples, Florida! Although, I’m so far behind everyone else there. After all, I’m still wearing my first face!

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids.

Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

Tests of love always end badly.

But why do you delay? Come, do what you will.

Show me a sexual practice that involves ice cubes and hot sauce, and I will show you a sexual practice that would be improved without them.

The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water.