It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.

I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

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

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

I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.

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.