Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.

No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.

The dance world was a big part of my growing up.

I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.

The whole world is out of time!

This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.

It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is how it works on this show." It takes some of the guesswork out of it.