If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

One of the things I've learned by working on the 'Walking Dead' and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people's process.

It's better to grow your employees, steer them into a place that they can learn and succeed, and want to work hard and be loyal, than to have a revolving door of employees. That's demoralizing.

Sharing information with employees makes them feel invested.

Nobody can survive alone, in this world. People have bonds, and sometimes those bonds are broken. And then, that person goes spinning off and connects with someone else.

I usually dive head first and am really excited about that changes.

When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work.

I think horror films always have to be as simple as possible.

The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

Don't forget, I've been fired by studios; I'm not the studio's guy. I'm a guy who can work with studios, but if you ask any studio, I stand up to these people.

I went to NYU undergraduate, then for a Master's in English, and got a summer job at St. Vincent's. I was a ward clerk handling everything in an intensive care unit.

I knew you were no longer mine when you no longer see me as something dazzling that made you lose your mind. You don't see me as the artwork you once fell in love with.

For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

When it comes to categorizing people, men and women into a group, it gets to be very dangerous.

I've got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That's a relationship that works.

One more thing: don’t feel bad for not telling me that you loved me. You didn’t need to say it. I knew all along that you did.

After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, sometimes I sketch out the action as well.)

Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?

The Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro have really made something of themselves and impacted people. I'd love to work with them sometime, too.