Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.

Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.

I'm a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.