When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

You learn more when things go wrong.

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

​Pass on bravery and wisdom to the future generations, not some ragged traditions and baseless cowardice.

You can't truly love someone if you also love yourself, just as you can't love someone if you are not honest with them and they with you - otherwise it's just infatuation and desire.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.

I shouldn't have to ask for your permission for me to put you in my lie!

Sometimes silence was easiest, when the only word left was good-bye.

What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?

My goal is to play hard and give the city a chance for a championship.

You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.

We need to cultivate hearts that are ready to change, ready to be mounded and shaped by the loving hands of God as we offer ourselves wholeheartedly in worship.