No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.

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.

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.

The whole world is out of time!

Too much happens ... Man performs engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

I don't mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don't want to be fat.

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.

There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.

You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.

The only thing I wish I could figure out is how I got misunderstood regarding the type of person I really am and what I accomplished.

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.