Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

We [with Les Charles] started talking about hotel stories, and we found that a lot of the action was happening in the hotel bar. We actually thought of that while we were in a bar: "Why would anyone ever leave here?"

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

I have withdrawal pains about not getting to work the people (on the show).

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.