Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.

Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave.

I would recommend that any writer get off their ass at least once and just try it. Directing is a completely different set of muscles. It also affects your writing because, once you start directing, you tend to write your scripts with directing in mind.

These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.