The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.
Great stories happen to those who can tell them.
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.