Sharing information with employees makes them feel invested.

One of the things I've learned by working on the 'Walking Dead' and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people's process.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

It's better to grow your employees, steer them into a place that they can learn and succeed, and want to work hard and be loyal, than to have a revolving door of employees. That's demoralizing.

Nobody can survive alone, in this world. People have bonds, and sometimes those bonds are broken. And then, that person goes spinning off and connects with someone else.

I usually dive head first and am really excited about that changes.

When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work.

I think horror films always have to be as simple as possible.

The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

Don't forget, I've been fired by studios; I'm not the studio's guy. I'm a guy who can work with studios, but if you ask any studio, I stand up to these people.

I went to NYU undergraduate, then for a Master's in English, and got a summer job at St. Vincent's. I was a ward clerk handling everything in an intensive care unit.

You’re . . . their absolute fantasy. Of course I’m jealous. You’re their fantasy and mine.

Now I understand - how sleep allows you to forget, but your pain wakes with the dawn, worse because for a split second you don't remember what you've suffered.

Every human being has like Socrates an attendant spirit and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do it always cautions us what not to do.

Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.

I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness.

It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

The antidote to climate change is community.