There are a lot of movies I feel good about. It was a great experience that I was lucky enough to be there in it. That's the way I feel.

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

Sometimes you’re left with only 1 choice: Take what’s yours and run for you life.

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

No way construction of this tricky plan was built by other than a greater hand.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

I have to say, as a showrunner, being niche-y is kind of a great thing.

I have absolutely no interest in creating depressing images.

Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.