There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate

I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes

When you wear a fresh pair of shoes, you feel like you can never die. You feel like you're gonna live forever.

Someone said to me today, ‘Everybody loved PUSING DAISIES,’ I said, ‘No, they didn’t— that’s why I’m here today talking about a new show.’

In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much.

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it.

Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved.

Good friends are much hard to find.

When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat.

Don't sound so surprised. I have sensible moments, you know.

When you don't know what to do, go back to the places, the people and the promises where you know you last heard God.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.

Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.