How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

As much as I liked acting for its playfulness and the reward of hearing big laughs wash over you on a stage, I always felt I should do something that I could control.

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

You can't love somebody into a state of mental health.

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators who read all the drafts with no names attached and then allocate credit.

Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.