Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.

What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.

They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

I joked recently that I thought 30 seconds a day for three years would be the best way to enjoy it, and I'm going to stand by that statement.

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.

My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something.

One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down."

Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'

Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter until there's a story - until someone comes in and holds us hostage.

You are one and only creator of your reality. Even when you might think there is some external force out there creating it for you, it is just you.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.

The only thing worse than dating a single mom is dating a single mom that won't put out.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.

You can't stop a reform in the middle. You do it completely and pretty fast, or you don't do it.

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.

I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.