The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.

I think the most famous person I've ever met is Brad Pitt.

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.