The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints.

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.'

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

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."

I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He's an artist with his feet.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.

I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them.

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

Speak me fair in death.