I don't wanna have anything left in the tank.

The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.

[My father] had a massive middle-age breakdown. And left the family. And then it just completely fell apart. And my mother was heartbroken, just completely devastated. To make ends meet we started selling off all our possessions.

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

Good storytelling doesn't have to be in the form of the classics. It doesn't have to be revered by everybody. In fact, to me, the best storytelling is not universally loved by every single person. I think you can water down the ethicacy of the work, itself.