The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.

You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.

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, 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 live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

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