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.

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.

Sharing information with employees makes them feel invested.

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.

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.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against sin, though that be not the effect aimed at.

With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.

There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.

Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.

We need a president who is focused on defeating every single ISIS terrorist and protecting the homeland, which should be the first priority.