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

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.

The whole world is out of time!

I think you can't go into any story-breaking process thinking, 'What if they come off as unlikeable?' You just gotta break the story because if you know who your character is, the story will tell you. The story will dictate and say, "This feels off-kilter for this particular person."

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another.

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