Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census', and people fall asleep.

There are no Asian movie stars

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I'm writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'