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

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.

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.

A family is a mystery.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can't ad lib. It's much more fun to be looser and say things like, 'Can I work in a Han Solo reference?' I'm a 'Star Wars' freak.

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

I would have had a clause in my contract; I would've definitely put some fine print in my contract that said, "If the president leaves, I'm leaving." That'd be the bottom line.

Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.

Courage is the facing of a challenge with a healthy fear, not being fearless.

I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.

The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.

I don't picture myself as a normal person when I play football, and I don't think anyone else pictures me that way as well.