I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

It's show business. No show, no business.

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

Any hand can condem, but it takes a helping hand to build.

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

On and on eternally Shall your altered fluid run, Bud and bloom and go to seed; But your singing days are done

If you don't understand hip-hop, you just have to see it being recorded.

What's good about many people liking the work is that when I want to collaborate or am interested in the synergy of artists working together, nobody ever says no to me when I ask to work with them.

I hate the murderer, love him murdered.