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

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.

You can have a good moment with a parent you are estranged from, and you have a great moment, and then the next time you see them, everything's back to the way it was before and you guys are throwing knives at each other.

You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and find something else, but if you don't have a path, you're just dead.

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.

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