When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.

It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day.

By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.

Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.

Fans can't ruin shows. Only creators can.

In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.

I am done with the hour-long [true crime] shows: "She was a happy married wife. Everything was perfect. Until the trip to Aruba."

Until I created my own shows, I had nothing but bad experiences on staffs.

Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

The writing is what's most important to me.

With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.

But reality had other ideas.

Less time on trivialities that will mean nothing when you're old. In the end all that will matter is who you helped and how deeply you cared

One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.

Only when you know who you are will you be able to find the courage to do what drives you-with integrity and grace.

Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

It is hard for women not to be overly self critical, I am no exception!

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness