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.

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.

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.

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.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleve

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

Listen baby, Muver love you. Muver not dumb. Listen baby: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Thas the alphabet. Twenty- six letters in all. Them letters make up words. Them words everything.

There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.

I’m a big fan of doing what you are really bad at. A lot.

Stop thinking about Michael," Tuck orders. "He was cute." "So is a hairy ferret but I wouldn't want to date one. [...]

Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option.