The only way you really see change is by helping to create it.

You can talk all day long, but if you don't do something, it's a waste.

My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest.

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.

I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.

I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

Defeat is a transient perception but giving up is permanent. So never give up.

Endure pain to turn it into your power.

Never trust an armed police officer.

Neatness is the hobogoblin of little minds

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.

I would prefer not to be involved in party politics.

What kind of alchemy could create a perfume that would make a reaction to a person lukewarm, indifferent and apathetic?If such a scent could be made I'd like some.

All my life I have battled the alarm clock, pummeling the snooze button over and over with mounting self-loathing until the shame is finally strong enough to lever me upright.

On the other side of the fear live your possibilities.

We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.