Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I'd find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies.

Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.

I still recognized for television. Buffy is 70 percent, Gilmore Girls is 30 percent, and then Mad Men. If it's a mother/daughter, it's definitely Gilmore Girls. They usually say, "We always watch it together, and we feel like we're the Gilmore girls." I've heard that like, 5,000 times.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.

Screenwriting is definitely the majority of my time, but I do still act when stuff comes up. I do a few jobs a year.People ask me that all the time about written something for yourself to star in, and it's strange. I just approach it as two separate careers.