Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create.

Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.

I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.

I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.

Love scenes are the hardest things in the world and if you enjoy them, that's wonderful, because nobody making them sits there and goes, 'Let's do that again tomorrow.'

Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great.

The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."

What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has been relegated to TV.

We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it so much and hold it so dear, why we pin our hopes on it.

I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I think it's nice to rise to the occasion, to be kind and considerate, and have self control.

When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

Man, meeting Michael Jordan for me was like.. black Jesus walking towards me. It was overwhelming to me to finally meet the guy I've looked up to my whole life.

I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.

Film is something that came later into my life.

One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.