Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great.

Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create.

Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.

I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.

I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.

Love scenes are the hardest things in the world and if you enjoy them, that's wonderful, because nobody making them sits there and goes, 'Let's do that again tomorrow.'

The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."

What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has been relegated to TV.

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.

Contributors and distributors tend to do better at personal branding than takers and fakers.

Drop Pants, Not Bombs. Break Dance, Not Hearts. Draft Beer, Not People. Make LOVE, Not WAR.

You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.

I creep like a thief, no doubt the man's swift, I'm more magnificent than Lee Van Cleef

The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

High kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.

Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty years ago this miracle would be unthinkable.