Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

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.

I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I feel like I actually work very hard to make sure the business side of the radio show runs, and no one has any interest in how a public radio show is run. And rightly so.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.