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.

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.

The whole world is out of time!

I don't believe in crowd funders. I don't believe the fans should be paying for their own things.

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?And shall I couple Hell?

When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one.

Dreams are a beautiful bride that holds our hands to enter a world more gloriousthan this one.

Go after your dreams confidently.Go after your aspirations positively.Go after your goals expectantly.

Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I will bow down my head to the wisdom of my heart.

Different strokes for different folks.

I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.

Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music.