The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another.

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.

These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.

The whole world is out of time!

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, " said Magnus, still looking at Alec, "you will never learn from your mistakes.

Better the friend we can see than the money we cannot.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

I'm very much a family person, and that's always my first priority.

All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.

Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.

Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.