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.

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

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will.

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

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

I dont meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

I was a chubby, unathletic kid and conformed to every possible stereotype you could imagine of someone who would end up in public broadcasting.