When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

Fear is not my portion, limitation is not my portion for that reason I will dream massive dreams and I will continue to dream until the end of my road.

The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal.

I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.

I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose a game tomorrow and win a football team.

One of the best questions you can ask when something negative happens is this: 'What does this experience make possible?'

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Well: Love and Pain Be kinfolks twain; Yet would, Oh would I could Love again.